Overview
- Discusses new diagnostic tools for best selecting AF patients for specific therapies
- Presents recent research in a highly practical, easy reference style
- Emphasis is on a just-the-facts approach to the interventional treatment of AF
Part of the book series: Current Cardiovascular Therapy (CCT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
The paradigm for atrial fibrillation (AF) management has changed significantly in recent years. A new era has begun for the prevention of one of the most tremendous complication of AF, stroke. Prevention of ischemic stroke in AF patients with oral anticoagulants represents a huge challenge because of the narrow therapeutic change of these drugs, interindividual and intraindividual variability, and the unsatisfactory time in therapeutically range (TTR) with this type of medication.
New guidelines have emerged as a result of new mechanisms for initiation and perpetuation for pharmacotherapy to cure AF and trials with new classes of antithrombotic drugs are ongoing. The treatment of AF is still in its infancy, but recent research is revealing how it can be applied with optimal efficacy. This book assists trainees, recertifying physicians, practicing physicians and other professional staff in internal medicine, cardiology, emergency medicine, and clinical pharmacology to apply new diagnostic tools for selecting the best treatment options for AF patients.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Atrial Fibrillation Therapy
Editors: Gheorghe-Andrei Dan, Antoni BayƩs de Luna, John Camm
Series Title: Current Cardiovascular Therapy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5475-4
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5474-7Published: 12 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5475-4Published: 25 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-8183
Series E-ISSN: 2946-8191
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 188
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Pharmacotherapy