PMID- 26835022
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160202
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 2050-3369 (Print)
IS  - 2050-3377 (Electronic)
IS  - 2050-3369 (Linking)
VI  - 1
IP  - 1
DP  - 2012 Sep
TI  - Risk Stratification in Atrial Fibrillation Patients - A Review Focused on 
      Mortality.
PG  - 8-11
LID - 10.15420/aer.2012.1.8 [doi]
AB  - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with increased mortality that is largely 
      due to the severe co-morbidities of patients with this rhythm disturbance rather 
      than to its electrocardiographic features. Available evidence indicated that 
      ageing, heart failure and stroke are the most important predictors of all-cause 
      mortality. Additional clinical parameters such as smoking, renal impairment, 
      chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may also identify patients at risk. The 
      prevention of thromboembolic events is based on oral anticoagulant therapy, which 
      reduces the severity and mortality of ischaemic strokes but slightly increase the 
      rate of haemorrhagic events. Most of the traditional risk stratifiers commonly 
      used in patients in sinus rhythm such as New York Heart Association (NYHA) 
      functional class, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and resting heart 
      rate seem to be less effective in AF patients thus leaving to the physician 
      judgment the main responsibility of identifying patients with an increased 
      mortality risk.
FAU - Lombardi, Federico
AU  - Lombardi F
AD  - Professor of Cardiology; Director of Cardiology Unit, San Paolo Hospital, 
      Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Arrhythm Electrophysiol Rev
JT  - Arrhythmia & electrophysiology review
JID - 101637930
PMC - PMC4711547
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Arrhythmic mortality
OT  - ageing and arrhythmias
OT  - heart failure
OT  - stroke and arrhythmias
EDAT- 2012/09/01 00:00
MHDA- 2012/09/01 00:01
PMCR- 2012/09/01
CRDT- 2016/02/03 06:00
PHST- 2016/02/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/09/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/09/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2012/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.15420/aer.2012.1.8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arrhythm Electrophysiol Rev. 2012 Sep;1(1):8-11. doi: 10.15420/aer.2012.1.8.