Spotlight on the 2024 ESC/EACTS management of atrial fibrillation guidelines: 10 novel key aspects
Michiel Rienstra, Stylianos Tzeis, Karina V Bunting, Valeria Caso, Harry J G M Crijns, Tom J R De Potter, Prashanthan Sanders, Emma Svennberg, Ruben Casado-Arroyo, Jeremy Dwight, Luigina Guasti, Thorsten Hanke, Tiny Jaarsma, Maddalena Lettino, Maja-Lisa Løchen, R Thomas Lumbers, Bart Maesen, Inge Mø · 2024
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Michiel Rienstra and co-authors highlight ten new aspects of the 2024 European guidelines for atrial fibrillation care. Their 2024 review covers the most common heart rhythm disorder worldwide, a condition tied to heavy illness and death burdens. Two European societies issued the update jointly.
A new framework organizes care into four pillars: managing other conditions and risk factors, avoiding stroke and clots, reducing symptoms through rate and rhythm control, and repeated evaluation over time. Picture-based patient pathways aim to make the guidance usable in clinic. One shift stands out: treating comorbidities and risk factors now leads, to cut recurrence and progression. Blood thinner decisions are to be tailored to each patient's risk rather than applied by a single rule.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Michiel Rienstra, Stylianos Tzeis, Karina V Bunting, Valeria Caso, Harry J G M Crijns, Tom J R De Potter, Prashanthan Sanders, Emma Svennberg, Ruben Casado-Arroyo, Jeremy Dwight, Luigina Guasti, Thorsten Hanke, Tiny Jaarsma, Maddalena Lettino, Maja-Lisa Løchen, R Thomas Lumbers, Bart Maesen, Inge Mø |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |