2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS focused update on the management of patients with atrial fibrillation (Updating the 2006 Guideline): a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines.

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Published in Heart Rhythm on December 21, 2010

Authors

L Samuel Wann, Anne B Curtis, Craig T January, Kenneth A Ellenbogen, James E Lowe, N A Mark Estes, Richard L Page, Michael D Ezekowitz, David J Slotwiner, Warren M Jackman, William G Stevenson, Cynthia M Tracy, 2006 WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBERS, Valentin Fuster, Lars E Rydén, David S Cannom, Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, Harry J Crijns, James E Lowe, Anne B Curtis, S Bertil Olsson, Kenneth A Ellenbogen, Eric N Prystowsky, Jonathan L Halperin, Juan Luis Tamargo, G Neal Kay, L Samuel Wann, ACCF/AHA TASK FORCE MEMBERS, Alice K Jacobs, Jeffrey L Anderson, Nancy Albert, Judith S Hochman, Christopher E Buller, Frederick G Kushner, Mark A Creager, Erik Magnus Ohman, Steven M Ettinger, William G Stevenson, Robert A Guyton, Lynn G Tarkington, Jonathan L Halperin, Clyde W Yancy

Associated clinical trials:

Effectiveness Study of Circumferential vs. Segmental Ablation in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (PAF) | NCT02106663

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