EDITORIAL COMMENT Restoring Sinus Rhythm in Atrial Fibrillation
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Atrial fibrillation (AF), at the very least, is a fruitful subject for both the clinician and basic scientist. Since 1965, PubMed has listed 6,329 publications with “atrial fibrillation” in the title, with 1,235 such articles between January 2001 and December 2002. In light of the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) parent study (1), which showed that in patients with AF and a risk of stroke, the strategy of restoring and maintaining sinus rhythm was not superior to the strategy of rate control, one must ask whether the relative efficacy of different drugs used to restore and maintain sinus rhythm is a topic worth discussion.
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