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Practice Guideline
. 2016 Nov;50(5):e1-e88.
doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezw313. Epub 2016 Sep 23.

2016 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS

Paulus Kirchhof  1 , Stefano Benussi  1 , Dipak Kotecha, Anders Ahlsson, Dan Atar, Barbara Casadei, Manuel Castella, Hans-Christoph Diener, Hein Heidbuchel, Jeroen Hendriks, Gerhard Hindricks, Antonis S Manolis, Jonas Oldgren, Bogdan Alexandru Popescu, Ulrich Schotten, Bart Van Putte, Panagiotis Vardas, Stefan Agewall, John Camm, Gonzalo Baron Esquivias, Werner Budts, Scipione Carerj, Filip Casselman, Antonio Coca, Raffaele De Caterina, Spiridon Deftereos, Dobromir Dobrev, José M Ferro, Gerasimos Filippatos, Donna Fitzsimons, Bulent Gorenek, Maxine Guenoun, Stefan H Hohnloser, Philippe Kolh, Gregory Y H Lip, Athanasios Manolis, John McMurray, Piotr Ponikowski, Raphael Rosenhek, Frank Ruschitzka, Irina Savelieva, Sanjay Sharma, Piotr Suwalski, Juan Luis Tamargo, Clare J Taylor, Isabelle C Van Gelder, Adriaan A Voors, Stephan Windecker, Jose Luis Zamorano, Katja Zeppenfeld
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2016 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS

Paulus Kirchhof et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 Nov.
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Keywords: AF surgery; Antiarrhythmic drugs; Anticoagulation; Atrial fibrillation; Cardioversion; Catheter ablation; Guidelines; Left atrial ablation; Left atrial appendage occlusion; Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants; Pulmonary vein isolation; Rate control; Rhythm control; Upstream therapy; Valve repair; Vitamin K antagonists.

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