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01-11-2010 | Editor’s Page

New guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation: what’s new?

Auteur: E.E. van der Wall

Gepubliceerd in: Netherlands Heart Journal | Uitgave 11/2010

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At the ESC Congress 2010 in Stockholm, four new practice guidelines were introduced concerning 1) grown-up congenital heart disease, 2) myocardial revascularisation, 3) use of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) and devices in patients with heart failure, and 4) atrial fibrillation (AF). In this Editor’s page a short summary is given of the new guidelines on AF. The Task Force on AF was chaired by Professor John Camm (London, UK) and included 24 European experts in arrhythmias. There are a number of important modifications compared with the previous 2006 AF guidelines. …

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