Erschienen in:
09.10.2019 | IM - COMMENTARY
Internists feel the rhythm
verfasst von:
Federico Biscetti, Maria Anna Nicolazzi, Andrea Flex, Raffaele Landolfi
Erschienen in:
Internal and Emergency Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2020
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Excerpt
Changes in heart rhythm always fascinated physicians. The first description of these changes dates back to almost a thousand years ago. The characterization of atrial fibrillation (AF) and its association with stroke were described more recently [
1,
2]. Although the pathological mechanisms underlying AF are well known, we cannot predict the onset of AF [
3‐
8]. …