Letter by Haft Regarding Article, “High Prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation Among Patients With Ischemic Stroke”

Letter by Haft regarding article, "High prevalence of atrial fibrillation among patients with ischemic stroke".

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cause of devastating but potentially preventable stroke. Estimates of the prevalence of AF among patients with stroke vary considerably because of difficulties in detection of intermittent, silent AF. Better recognition of AF in this patient group may help to identify and offer protection to individuals at risk. Our aim was to determin...

Letter by Haft regarding article, "Temporal relationship between subclinical atrial fibrillation and embolic events".

BACKGROUND Among patients with implantable pacemakers and defibrillators, subclinical atrial fibrillation (SCAF) is associated with an increased risk of stroke; however, there is limited understanding of their temporal relationship. METHODS AND RESULTS The Asymptomatic Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Evaluation in Pacemaker Patients and the Atrial Fibrillation Reduction Atrial Pacing Trial (AS...

Letter by Wachter et al regarding article "Cost-effectiveness of outpatient cardiac monitoring to detect atrial fibrillation after ischemic stroke".

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Extending the duration of continuous electrocardiography after ischemic stroke detects more new cases of atrial fibrillation, which is an important and treatable cause of stroke, but the cost-effectiveness of this approach is unknown. Therefore, we performed a cost-utility analysis of outpatient cardiac monitoring after ischemic stroke. METHODS Using a Markov model, we ...

Letter by Stöllberger et al regarding article, "Stroke risk and antithrombotic strategies in atrial fibrillation".

Letter by Doğanay et al Regarding Article, "Preexisting Heart Disease Underlies Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation After Acute Ischemic Stroke".

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Whether newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation (nAF) after stroke reflects underlying heart disease and represents an increased risk of cardioembolic stroke, or whether it is triggered by neurogenic mechanisms remains uncertain. We investigated, whether cardiovascular risk factors and echocardiographic parameters in patients with nAF are similar to patients with known AF (kA...