Letter by Amat-Santos et al Regarding Article, “Atrial Fibrillation Is Associated With Increased Mortality in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacemen: Insights From the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valve (PARTNER) Trial” | Zendy

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Letter by Amat-Santos et al Regarding Article, “Atrial Fibrillation Is Associated With Increased Mortality in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacemen: Insights From the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valve (PARTNER) Trial”

Author(s) -

Ignacio J. AmatSantos,

Javier Castrodeza,

Javier Tobar

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

circulation cardiovascular interventions

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.621

H-Index - 95

eISSN - 1941-7632

pISSN - 1941-7640

DOI - 10.1161/circinterventions.116.003692

Subject(s) - medicine , atrial fibrillation , cardiology

We read with great interest the article from Biviano et al.1 We think that their findings are of utmost importance for the prognostic assessment of patients following transcatheter aortic valve replacement. In this study, the rate of new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) as reported in the ECG performed at discharge was 6%. This rate is low in comparison with previously reported research,2,3 especially if we consider the high rate of …

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