Atrial fibrillation complicating acute myocardial infarction: how should it be interpreted and how should it be treated and prevented?

Atrial fibrillation complicating acute myocardial infarction: how should it be interpreted and how should it be treated and prevented?

Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been reported to complicate the course of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in 6–21% of hospitalized patients. Possible precipitating factors of AF in this setting include atrial ischaemia or infarction, right ventricular infarction, pericardial inflammation, acute hypoxia or hypokalaemia, and haemodynamic impairment secondary to left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. E...

Atrial fibrillation: how should it be treated?

istorical Aspect In 1827 Robert Adams was probably the first person to recognize Atrial Fibrillation (AF) clinically as a sign of mitral stenosis. Hope in 1839 identified irregular pulse in association with mitral stenosis. Etienne Marcy in 1863 published a tracing of atrial fibrillation from a patient with mitral stenosis. Arthur Cushney described it in 1899. Initially AF was termed as Deleriu...

Femoral pseudoaneurysm: How should it be treated?

We read with interest the article by Duszańska et al. [1] entitled ‘Predictors of successful iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm compression dressing repair’ recently published in the journal. The authors suggested that compression dressing repair (CPR) might serve as an alternative method of femoral pseudoaneurysm (FPA) management in patients with low forward and reverse velocities of the flow in pseudo...

Blunt renal artery trauma: how should it be treated, or rather, should it be treated?

How can myocarditis be diagnosed and should it be treated?