Previously Known and Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation: A Major Risk Indicator After a Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Heart Failure or Left Ventricular Dysfunction

Køber, Lars; Swedberg, Karl; J.V. McMurray, John; A. Pfeffer, Marc; J. Velazquez, Eric; Díaz, Rafael; P. Maggioni, Aldo; Mareev, Viatcheslav; Opolski, Grzegorz; Van de Werf, Frans; Zannad, Faı̈ez; Ertl, Georg; D. Solomon, Scott; L. Zelenkofske, Steven; Rouleau, Jean‐Lucien; D. Leimberger, Jeffrey; M. Califf, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.ejheart.2005.11.007

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Previously Known and Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation: A Major Risk Indicator After a Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Heart Failure or Left Ventricular Dysfunction

Published in European Journal of Heart Failure • Mar 1, 2006

Authors:

Lars Køber

Karl Swedberg

John J.V. McMurray

Abstract

AIMS: To characterize the relationship between known and newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF) and the risk of death and major cardiovascular (CV) events in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by heart failure (HF) and/or left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD). METHOD...

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Medicine

Cardiology

Internal medicine

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