Top-ten 2017 Update on Atrial Fibrillation News

I recently served on the faculty of the tenth annual Western AF Symposium in Park City, Utah. Dr. Nassir Marrouche of the University of Utah has grown Western AF into a huge gathering of global experts in atrial fibrillation. During the intense two-day meeting, I took notes and put together a post of top-ten highlights. The title of the post and link to it on theHeart.org are below: 10 Highlights from the 10th Annual Western AF Symposium The 900-word column includes short-writing notes on… Big themes in AF — this includes thoughts on prevention of AF, the fourth pillar of AF care, and the ceiling of AF ablation success. Problems with AF-mapping technologies — two leaders in basic science presented reasons to be skeptical of mapping systems’ ability to show the ever-elusive rotors. In fact, the term “rotor” is becoming a politically charged term. The safer phrase now is “rotational activity.” Brand new ideas on stroke and AF — this section introduces Dr. Hooman Kamel, a stroke researcher from New York, who is changing the way we think about AF and stroke. Namely, that AF episodes recorded on an ECG may not be a very good surrogate marker for stroke. Go read my post and follow the references. His work will change the field–IMHO. The limits of the CHADS-VASC score — it turns out that this much beloved easy-to-use risk score predicts stroke only slightly better than a coin flip. More humble goals for predicting st...
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