Subscribe to RSS
Please copy the URL and add it into your RSS Feed Reader.
https://www.thieme-connect.de/rss/thieme/en/10.1055-s-00000011.xml
Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2006; 131(50): 2843-2854
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-957212
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-957212
CME-Beitrag | Review article
Kardiologie© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Vorhofflimmern
Atrial fibrillationFurther Information
Publication History
eingereicht: 20.10.2006
akzeptiert: 30.11.2006
Publication Date:
08 December 2006 (online)

Schlüsselwörter
Vorhofflimmern - Antiarrhythmika - Katheterablation - Antikoagulation
Schlüsselwörter
atrial fibrillation - antiarrhythmic drug - catheter ablation - anticoagulation
Literatur
- 1
Maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation: an AFFIRM substudy
of the first antiarrhythmic drug.
J Am Coll Cardiol.
2003;
42
20-29
MissingFormLabel
- 2
Alboni P, Botto G L, Baldi N. et al .
Outpatient treatment of recent-onset atrial fibrillation with the „pill-in-the-pocket”
approach.
N Engl J Med.
2004;
351
2384-2391
MissingFormLabel
- 3
Cappato R, Calkins H, Chen S A. et al .
Worldwide survey on the methods, efficacy, and safety of catheter ablation for human
atrial fibrillation.
Circulation.
2005;
111
1100-1105
MissingFormLabel
- 4
Chung M K, Shemanski L, Sherman D G. et al .
Functional status in rate- versus rhythm-control strategies for atrial fibrillation:
results of the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-Up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM)
Functional Status Substudy.
J Am Coll Cardiol.
2005;
46
1891-1899
MissingFormLabel
- 5
Cox J L, Jaquiss R D, Schuessler R B, Boineau J P.
Modification of the Maze procedure for atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.
1995;
110
485-495
MissingFormLabel
- 6
Crijns H J, Van Gelder I C, Van Gilst W H. et al .
Serial antiarrhythmic drug treatment to maintain sinus rhythm after electrical cardioversion
for chronic atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter.
Am J Cardiol.
1991;
68
335-341
MissingFormLabel
- 7
Flaker G C, Blackshear J L, McBride R. et al .
Antiarrhythmic drug therapy and cardiac mortality in atrial fibrillation. The Stroke
Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Investigators.
J Am Coll Cardiol.
1992;
20
527-532
MissingFormLabel
- 8
Fuster V, Ryden L E, Cannom D S. et al .
ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation:
a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force
on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice
Guidelines: developed in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association
and the Heart Rhythm Society.
Circulation.
2006;
114
e257-e354
MissingFormLabel
- 9
Gage B F, Waterman A D, Shannon W. et al .
Validation of clinical classification schemes for predicting stroke: results from
the National Registry of Atrial Fibrillation.
JAMA.
2001;
285
2864-2870
MissingFormLabel
- 10
Goette A, Lendeckel U, Klein H U.
Molecular biology of the heart atrium. New insights into the pathophysiology of atrial
fibrillation as well as its clinical implications.
Z Kardiol.
2004;
93
864-877
MissingFormLabel
- 11
Haissaguerre M, Jais P, Shah D C. et al .
Spontaneous initiation of atrial fibrillation by ectopic beats originating in the
pulomonary veins.
N Engl J Med.
1998;
339
659-666
MissingFormLabel
- 12
Hart R G, Benavente O, McBride R, Pearce L A.
Antithrombotic therapy to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis.
Ann Intern Med.
1999;
131
492-501
MissingFormLabel
- 13
Hohnloser S, Kuck K H, Lielenthal J.
Rhythm or rate control in atrial fibrillation - pharmacological intervention in atrial
fibrillation (PIAF): a randomised trial.
Lancet.
2000;
356
1789-1794
MissingFormLabel
- 14
Julian D G, Camm A J, Frangin G. et al .
Randomised trial of effect of amiodarone on mortality in patients with left-ventricular
dysfunction after recent myocardial infarction: EMIAT.
Lancet.
1997;
349
667-674
MissingFormLabel
- 15
Kistler P M, Rajappan K, Jahngir M. et al .
The impact of CT image integration into an electroanatomic mapping system on clinical
outcomes of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.
J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol.
2006;
17
1093-1101
MissingFormLabel
- 16
Kopecky S L, Gersh B J, McGoon M D. et al .
The natural history of lone atrial fibrillation: a population-based study over three
decades.
N Engl J Med.
1987;
317
669-674
MissingFormLabel
- 17
Kottkamp H, Hindricks G, Autschbach R. et al .
Specific linear left atrial lesions in atrial fibrillation: intraoperative radiofrequency
ablation using minimally invasive surgical techniques.
J Am Coll Card.
2002;
40
475-480
MissingFormLabel
- 18
Kühlkamp V, Mermi J, Mewis C, Seipel L.
Efficacy and proarrhythmia with the use of d,l-sotalol for sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
J Cardiovasc Pharmacol.
1997;
29
373-381
MissingFormLabel
- 19
Kühlkamp V, Schirdewan A, Stangl K. et al .
Use of metoprolol CR/XL to maintain sinus rhythm after conversion from persistent
atrial fibrillation.
J Am Coll Card.
2000;
36
139-146
MissingFormLabel
- 20
Neuberger H R, Schotten U, Verheule S. et al .
Development of a substrate of atrial fibrillation during chronic atrioventricular
block in the goat.
Circulation.
2005;
111
30-37
MissingFormLabel
- 21
Olshansky B, Heller E N, Mitchell L B. et al .
Are transthoracic echocardiographic parameters associated with atrial fibrillation
recurrence or stroke? Results from the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-Up Investigation
of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) study.
J Am Coll Cardiol.
2005;
45
2026-2033
MissingFormLabel
- 22
Oral H, Scharf C, Chugh A. et al .
Catheter ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: segmental pulmonary vein ostial
ablation versus left atrial ablation.
Circulation.
2003;
108
2355-2360
MissingFormLabel
- 23
Ouyang F, Antz M, Ernst S. et al .
Recovered pulmonary vein conduction as a dominant factor for recurrent atrial tachyarrhythmias
after complete circular isolation of the pulmonary veins: lessons from double Lasso
technique.
Circulation.
2005;
111
127-135
MissingFormLabel
- 24
Page R L, Tilsch T W, Connolly S J. et al .
Asymptomatic or „silent” atrial fibrillation: frequency in untreated patients and
patients receiving azimilide.
Circulation.
2003;
107
1141-1145
MissingFormLabel
- 25
Roy D, Talajic M, Dorian P. et al .
The Canadian Trial of Atrial Fibrillation Investigators. Amiodarone to Prevent Recurrence
of Atrial Fibrillation.
N Engl J Med.
2000;
342
913-920
MissingFormLabel
- 26
The cardiac arrhythmia suppression trial (CAST) investigators .
Preliminary report: effect of encainide and flecainide on mortality in a randomized
trial of arrhythmia suppression after myocardial infarction.
N Engl J Med.
1989;
321
406-412
MissingFormLabel
- 27
Van Gelder I C, Hagens V E, Bosker H A. et al .
A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with recurrent persistent
atrial fibrillation.
N Engl J Med.
2002;
347
1834-1840
MissingFormLabel
- 28
Wazni O M, Marrouche N F, Martin D O. et al .
Radiofrequency ablation vs antiarrhythmic drugs as first-line treatment of symptomatic
atrial fibrillation: a randomized trial.
JAMA.
2005;
293
2634-2640
MissingFormLabel
- 29
Wijffels M C, Kirchhof C J, Dorland R, Allessie M A.
Atrial fibrillation begets atrial fibrillation: a study in awake chronically instrumented
goats.
Circulation.
1995;
92
1954-1968
MissingFormLabel
- 30
Wyse D G, Waldo A L, DiMarco J P. et al .
A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation.
N Engl J Med.
2002;
347
1825-1833
MissingFormLabel
Prof. Dr. med. Christian Mewis
Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Kardiologie, Angiologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin
66421 Homburg/Saar
Phone: 06841/1623368
Fax: 06841/1623381
Email: mewis@med-in.uni-saarland.de