Characterization of atrial fibrillation in real-world patients: testing the 4S-AF scheme in the Spanish and French cohorts of the EORP-AF Long-Term General Registry.
José Miguel Rivera-CaravacaOlivier PiotInmaculada Roldán-RabadánArnaud DenisManuel AnguitaJacques MansouratiAlejandro Pérez-CabezaEloi MarijonJavier García-SearaChristophe LeclercqIgnacio Garcia-BolaoNicolas LelloucheTatjana PotparaGiuseppe BorianiLaurent FauchierGregory Y H LipFrancisco MarínPublished in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2021)
Characterization of AF by using the 4S-AF scheme may aid in identifying AF patients that would be managed by rhythm or rate control and could also help in identifying high-risk AF patients for worse clinical outcomes in a 'real-world' setting.