It is common practice to restore and maintain sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure. This approach is based in part on data indicating that atrial fibrillation is a ...

(ii) How important is restoration and maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with CHF? (iii) What strategies are useful to maintain sinus rhythm or to control heart rate during AF? (iv ...

The AF-CHF trial investigators found that the type ... Furthermore, the proportion of time in sinus rhythm whilst on assigned antiarrhythmia therapy did not effect these outcomes in the 1,316 ...

The Atrial Fibrillation and Congestive Heart Failure trial, which was conducted ... targeted towards controlling the heart's rate or its rhythm. The study also showed that other factors, such ...

primarily because of the inability to maintain sinus rhythm. Meanwhile 10% crossed from the rate-control arm to rhythm control, primarily because of worsening heart failure. Hospitalization was ...

Our easy-to-read patient fact sheet compares and contrasts sinus arrhythmia vs AFib (atrial fibrillation) symptoms.

78 percent of the patients with congestive heart failure and 84 percent of the controls remained in sinus rhythm (P=0.34) (69 percent and 71 percent, respectively, were in sinus rhythm without the ...

– For people who have heart failure with a normal heart rhythm, there seems to be little to no advantage of warfarin (an anticoagulant: a medicine which prevents blood clotting by blocking proteins) ...

"Clinical benefit is observed across the spectrum of heart failure subtypes, suggesting that restoring and maintaining sinus rhythm via rhythm control therapy conveys the clinical benefit," the ...

A sinus arrhythmia refers to a problem with ... It tends to decrease as people age, especially in people living with diabetes or heart failure. Generally, making an effort to maintain a healthy ...