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About 2.2 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, putting them at risk of clots and strokes. About 15 percent of strokes occur in people with AF.
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Learn about atrial fibrillation including what it is, what happens during atrial fibrillation, symptoms, risk factors, how it is diagnosed, and how it is treated.
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Atrial Fibrillation - Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most commonly encountered arrhythmia in clinical practice, is defined by the absence of coordinated atrial systole. AF results from multiple reentrant electrical wavelets that move randomly around the atria.P waves are replaced by irregular, chaotic fibrillatory waves, often with a concomitant irregular ventricular tachycardia. The rate at which the atrial electrical impulses are transmitted to the ventricle is determined by a number of factors including relative refractory period within the atrioventricular (AV) node, ...
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Learn about atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heart rhythm.
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/atrial_fibrillation/article_em.htm
The Atrial Fibrillation Page: Its debilitating consequences, plus everything you ever wanted to know about the Maze procedure, a surgical cure for AF.
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A-Fib 101: Why atrial fibrillation makes you feel so bad, and what you can do about it...
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Atrial Fibrillation - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia (see Image 1) and is a significant public health problem in the United States, affecting 2.2 million Americans and almost 5% of the population older than 69 years and 8% of the population older than 80 years. Thus, the prevalence of AF increases with advancing age. Data from the Framingham heart study show that AF is associated with a 1.5- to 1.9-fold higher risk of death, which may be ...
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic184.htm
The Atrial Fibrillation Foundation is dedicated to patient education and research.
http://www.affacts.org/
Heart Rhythm Society The leading authority on arrhythmia, pacemaker, electrophysiology, sudden death, cardiac arrest, arhythmia, arrythmia, ...
http://www.hrspatients.org/patients/heart_disorders/atrial_fibrillation/default.asp
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