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Ventricular Fibrillation
Known as:
FIBRILLATION PAROXYSMAL VENT
, Ventricular Fibrillation [Disease/Finding]
, VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION PAROXYSM
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A potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia that is characterized by uncoordinated extremely rapid firing of electrical impulses (400-600/min) in HEART…
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Review
2018
Review
2018
2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
W. Powers
,
A. Rabinstein
,
+16 authors
D. Tirschwell
Stroke
2018
Corpus ID: 4972922
Background and Purpose— The purpose of these guidelines is to provide an up-to-date comprehensive set of recommendations for…
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Review
2014
Review
2014
Worldwide Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation: A Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study
S. Chugh
,
Rasmus J Havmoeller
,
+12 authors
C. Murray
Circulation
2014
Corpus ID: 26069618
Background— The global burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) is unknown. Methods and Results— We systematically reviewed population…
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Review
2010
Review
2010
Refining clinical risk stratification for predicting stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation using a novel risk factor-based approach: the euro heart survey on atrial fibrillation.
G. Lip
,
R. Nieuwlaat
,
R. Pisters
,
D. Lane
,
H. Crijns
Chest
2010
Corpus ID: 10412032
BACKGROUND Contemporary clinical risk stratification schemata for predicting stroke and thromboembolism (TE) in patients with…
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Review
2010
Review
2010
A novel user-friendly score (HAS-BLED) to assess 1-year risk of major bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation: the Euro Heart Survey.
R. Pisters
,
D. Lane
,
R. Nieuwlaat
,
C. B. de Vos
,
H. Crijns
,
G. Lip
Chest
2010
Corpus ID: 207385347
OBJECTIVE Despite extensive use of oral anticoagulation (OAC) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and the increased…
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Meta-analysis: Antithrombotic Therapy to Prevent Stroke in Patients Who Have Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
R. Hart
,
L. Pearce
,
M. Aguilar
Annals of Internal Medicine
2007
Corpus ID: 25505238
Context Thirteen new randomized, controlled trials are available since a 1999 meta-analysis of antithrombotic agents for stroke…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest.
Ashkan Mohammad H. Marissa Patrick Kara Alex Laurie Ali H Afshin Forouzanfar Reitsma Sur Estep Lee Marczak M
,
A. Afshin
,
+151 authors
C. Murray
New England Journal of Medicine
2002
Corpus ID: 5295528
BACKGROUND Cardiac arrest with widespread cerebral ischemia frequently leads to severe neurologic impairment. We studied whether…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Impact of atrial fibrillation on the risk of death: the Framingham Heart Study.
E. Benjamin
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P. Wolf
,
R. D’Agostino
,
H. Silbershatz
,
W. Kannel
,
Daniel Levy
Circulation
1998
Corpus ID: 9439596
BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) causes substantial morbidity. It is uncertain whether AF is associated with excess mortality…
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Atrial fibrillation as an independent risk factor for stroke: the Framingham Study.
P. Wolf
,
R. Abbott
,
W. Kannel
Stroke
1991
Corpus ID: 498613
The impact of nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation, hypertension, coronary heart disease, and cardiac failure on stroke incidence was…
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Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Decreased heart rate variability and its association with increased mortality after acute myocardial infarction.
R. Kleiger
,
R. Kleiger
,
+9 authors
A. Moss
American Journal of Cardiology
1987
Corpus ID: 34818278
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Neural activity and ventricular fibrillation.
B. Lown
,
R. Verrier
New England Journal of Medicine
1976
Corpus ID: 35935884
Ventricular fibrillation is the likely mechanism for sudden death and the leading cause of fatality among patients with coronary…
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