Afib News & Events

New issue of the Journal of Atrial Fibrillation

September 23, 2008 6:23 AM CT

The third issue of the Journal of Atrial Fibrillation is now available. A new addition this issue is the patient-friendly abstract.

Here are the topics in this issue:

• Underutilization of Warfarin Therapy in Elderly Patients with Atrial Fibrillation – Fear or False Sense of Security!
• Echocardiographic Predictors of Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation In Patients with Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis and Normal Sinus Rhythm
• Left atrial image registration to guide catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: In the eye of the technology
• Cardiac Image Registration 
• Sinus Node Dysfunction in Atrial Fibrillation: Cause or Effect? 
• Impact of Smoking on the Atrial Substrate Characteristics in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation 
• Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Septal Defect: Taming of the Scylla and Charybdis 
• Physical Activity and Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study 
• GIANT Flutter Waves in ECG Lead V1: a Marker of Pulmonary Hypertension

Read the third issue of the Journal of Atrial Fibrillation here