Open AccessA complicated case of atrial fibrillation
Author(s) -
Erica Delsignore,
R Cantone,
Maria Luisa Moia,
Luigi Olivetto,
Maria Cristina Pollo,
Anna Maria Varese,
Aldo Tua,
M C Bertoncelli
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical management issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2283-3137
pISSN - 1973-4832
DOI - 10.7175/cmi.v4i3s.1149
Subject(s) - medicine , atrial fibrillation , pathological , cardiology , fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation, usually considered a benign arrhythmia, recognizes several aetiologies: not only sctructural cardiopathies, but also other diseases, drugs intake or post-operative courses. Sometimes it can occur in absence of apparente cause. More and more frequently it is usual to consider this arrhythmia like a marker of pathological unknown situation; therefore, also patients with “lone atrial fibrillation” should be submitted to surveys in order to find probable associated causes.