Atrial fibrillation: some current practical problems
Delahaye, J.P.; Milon, H.; Boissonnat, P.
Annales de Cardiologie et d'Angeiologie 35(10): 597-606
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-3928 PMID: 3548563 Document Number: 268148
We emphasize: the great frequency of atrial fibrillation, present in approximately 10% of men and more than 20 p. cent of women hospitalized in a cardiology department; the advantage of a comprehensive etiological survey, reducing to less than 10 p. cent the percentage of idiopathic permanent atrial fibrillations, in this department; the need to take into account all factors determining the prognosis of atrial fibrillation: ventricular contractility and hemodynamic consequences of the rhythm disorder, volume of the left atrium, condition of the valvular orifices, risk of thrombo-emboly, etc., as well as the difficulty of therapeutic indications, linked on the one hand to the multiplicity of etiologies and prognosis factors, and on the other hand to the diversity of the therapeutic approaches, of which we are here reminded.