When should we measure biomarkers in patients with atrial fibrillation to predict recurrences?

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent arrhythmia and electrical cardioversion (ECV) is a common process to revert to sinus rhythm in the Emergency Department but it has a high recurrence rate (71 –84%) [1]. AF recurrences are probably related with anatomical and electrophysiological phenomena involving atrial myocardium. NT-proBNP, galectin-3, ST2, urate, C reactive protein, high sensitivity troponin T and fibrinogen are Biomarkers (BM) that have been implicated in these processes in other cardiac diseases.

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - May 20, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Ana Merino-Merino, Ruth Saez-Maleta, Ricardo Salgado-Aranda, Daniel AlKassam-Martinez, Virginia Pascual-Tejerina, Javier Martin-Gonz ález, Javier Garcia-Fernandez, Jose-Angel Perez-Rivera Source Type: research