Therapeutic inertia in rhythm control strategies in hospitalized patients with fibrillation: Insights from Hellenic Cardiorenal Morbidity Snapshot (HECMOS) study

CONCLUSION: High prevalence of persistent AF was detected in hospitalized patients, with heart failure being the leading cause of admission and main co-morbidity. Rhythm control strategies are notably underused, along with CRT-D implantation in patients with AF and heart failure.PMID:37979719 | DOI:10.1016/j.jjcc.2023.11.004

Source: Journal of Cardiology - November 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Panayotis K Vlachakis Dimitris Tsiachris Ioannis Doundoulakis Panagiotis Tsioufis Athanasios Kordalis Michail Botis Ioannis Leontsinis Christos-Konstantinos Antoniou Chrysostomi Papachrysostomou Vasiliki Dimitroula Eleni Maneta Vasileios Chalkitis Theodor Source Type: research