Clinical characteristics of hemodialysis patients with atrial fibrillation: The RAKUEN (Registry of atrial fibrillation in chronic kidney disease under hemodialysis from Niigata) study.

CONCLUSIONS: In our hemodialysis patients, AF was a common comorbidity and was independently associated with all-cause death and major bleeding, but not with increased risk of ischemic stroke. PMID: 26527113 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26527113?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Cardiology - October 30, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Mitsuma W, Matsubara T, Hatada K, Imai S, Saito N, Shimada H, Miyazaki S Tags: J Cardiol Source Type: research