Patients at risk of atrial fibrillation may need additional monitoring after heart surgery

(American Heart Association) There appears to be a high rate of unrecognized atrial fibrillation in the month following heart surgery among people who have an increased risk of stroke, even when atrial fibrillation was not detected immediately following surgery.When high-risk patients wore a heart monitor 24-hours a day for 30 days after heart surgery, atrial fibrillation was detected ten times more often than in patients who were not monitored continuously.
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