- ►oxfordjournals.org CJ Boos, RA Anderson, GYH Lip - European heart journal, 2006 - Eur Soc Cardiology There is mounting evidence to support the influence of inflammation in the
pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation (AF). Indeed, AF is associated with
increased levels of known inflammatory markers, even after adjustment for ... Cited by 168 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►nih.gov GYH Lip, HF Tse - The Lancet, 2007 - Elsevier Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac rhythm disorder, and
confers a substantial mortality and morbidity from stroke, thromboembolism,
heart failure, and impaired quality of life. With the increasingly elderly ... Cited by 66 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 37 versions
- ►onlinejacc.org PS Chan, S Vijan, F Morady, H Oral - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2006 - Elsevier We developed a decision-analytic model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of
LACA in 55- and 65-year-old cohorts with AF at moderate and low stroke risk.
Costs, health utilities, and transition probabilities were derived from ... Cited by 37 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 21 versions
E Fenwick, DA Marshall, AR Levy, G Nichol - BMC Health Services Research, 2006 - biomedcentral.com A retrospective cost-effectiveness analysis of the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up
Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) randomized controlled trial with
4060 patients followed for 3.5 years. The target population was patients ... Cited by 29 - Related articles - Cached - All 11 versions
DG Wyse - Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 2005 - Elsevier Rhythm management for atrial fibrillation is a subject of intense interest. In
this review, the two main strategies for rhythm management in atrial
fibrillation, the “heart rate control” strategy and the “heart rhythm ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - All 10 versions
H Vidaillet, RT Greenlee - Current Opinion in Cardiology, 2005 - journals.lww.com Recent findings: In the aggregate, the five trials enrolled a total of 5175
subjects and accumulated 16,186 patient-years of follow-up. All these trials
have had similar results in that each of them failed to demonstrate a clear ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - All 4 versions
AJ Camm, I Savelieva, GYH Lip - British Medical Journal, 2006 - heart.bmj.com Online First articles must include the digital object identifier (DOIs) and date
of initial publication. establish publication priority; they are indexed by
PubMed from initial publication. Citations to may be posted when available ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
CR Kumana, BMY Cheung, GTY Cheung, T … - British journal of clinical pharmacology, 2005 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov RCTs of outcome primarily comparing rate vs. rhythm control in patients with
spontaneous AF were identified. For each outcome and assuming rhythm control to
be the active treatment, relative risk reduction (RRR) and NNT year −1 ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
HJ Vidaillet - Am J Geriatr Cardiol, 2005 - interscience.wiley.com Antiarrhythmic medications used to maintain sinus rhythm have long been the
treatment of choice in atrial fibrillation. The results of five prospective
randomized trials comparing the efficacy and safety of rhythm-control to ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - All 4 versions
