Searching for atrial fibrillation: looking harder, looking longer, and in increasingly sophisticated ways. An EHRA position paper
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PubMed
36256580
PubMed Central
PMC10112840
DOI
10.1093/europace/euac144
PII: 6763073
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- Keywords
- AF populations at risk, AF screening, AF screening devices, Asymptomatic atrial fibrillation, Atrial fibrillation, Patient’s benefits of AF screening,
- MeSH
- Stroke * MeSH
- Atrial Fibrillation * diagnosis therapy MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
Amsterdam University Medical Centers Amsterdam The Netherlands
Clinic and Policlinic for Cardiology University Hospital Leipzig Leipzig Germany
Department of Arrhythmology Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS Milan Italy
Department of Cardiology 2 University Hospital Münster Münster Germany
Department of Cardiology and Electrophysiology Cliniques du Sud Luxembourg Vivalia Arlon Belgium
Department of Cardiology Cantonal Hospital CH 1211 Geneva Switzerland
Department of Cardiology Charité University Medicine Campus Virchow Klinikum 13353 Berlin Germany
Department of Cardiology DMS in Zabrze Medical University of Silesia Katowice Poland
Department of Cardiology Electrophysiology Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam The Netherlands
Department of Cardiology Erasme Hospital Brussels Belgium
Department of Cardiology Silesian Center for Heart Diseases Zabrze Poland
Department of Cardiology St Antonius Hospital Utrecht The Netherlands
Department of Cardiology University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg Germany
Department Of Cardiology University Medical Center Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
Department of Clinical Medicine Aalborg University Aalborg Denmark
Department of Electrophysiology Heart Center Leipzig at University of Leipzig Leipzig Germany
Department of Medical Science and Cardiology Uppsala University Hospital S 751 85 Uppsala Sweden
Faculty of Medicine Institute of Pharmacology University Duisburg Essen Essen Germany
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