Rate Control versus Rhythm Control for Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery
New England Journal of Medicine2016Vol. 374(20), pp. 1911–1921
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A. Marc Gillinov, Emilia Bagiella, Alan J. Moskowitz, Jesse Raiten, Mark A. Groh, Michael E. Bowdish, Gorav Ailawadi, Katherine Kirkwood, Louis P. Perrault, Michael K. Parides, Robert L. Smith, John A. Kern, Gladys Dussault, Amy Hackmann, Neal Jeffries, Marissa A. Miller, Wendy C. Taddei‐Peters, Eric A. Rose, Richard D. Weisel, Deborah Williams, Ralph Mangusan, Michael Argenziano, Ellen Moquete, Karen O’Sullivan, Michel Pellerin, Kinjal Shah, James S. Gammie, Mary Lou Mayer, Pierre Voisine, Annetine C. Gelijns, Patrick T. O’Gara, Michael J. Mack
Abstract
Strategies for rate control and rhythm control to treat postoperative atrial fibrillation were associated with equal numbers of days of hospitalization, similar complication rates, and similarly low rates of persistent atrial fibrillation 60 days after onset. Neither treatment strategy showed a net clinical advantage over the other. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02132767.).
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