2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) : the Task Force for the diagnosis and management of atrialfibrillation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) : developed with the special contribution of the European HeartRhythm Association (EHRA) of the ESC

• Author(s): Hindricks, Gerhard ; Potpara, Tatjana ; Dagres, Nikolaos ; Arbelo, Elena ; Bax, Jeroen J. ; Blomström-Lundqvist, Carina ; Boriani, Giuseppe ; Castella, Manuel ; Dan, Gheorghe-Andrei ; Dilaveris, Polychronis E. ; Fauchier, Laurent ; Petersen, Steffen E. ; Piccini, Jonathan P. ; Popescu, Bogdan A. ; Pürerfellner, Helmut ; Richter, Dimitrios J. ; Roffi, Marco ; Rubboli, Andrea ; Scherr, Daniel ; Schnabel, Renate B. ; Simpson, Iain A. ; Raatikainen, Pekka ; Shlyakhto, Evgeny ; Sinner, Moritz F. ; Steffel, Jan ; Suwalski, Piotr ; Svetlosak, Martin ; Touyz, Rhian M. ; Windecker, Stephan ; Baigent, Colin ; Collet, Jean-Philippe ; Dean, Veronica ; Boveda, Serge ; Fitzsimons, Donna ; Gale, Chris P. ; Grobbee, Diederick E. ; Halvorsen, Sigrun ; Lung, Bernard ; Jüni, Peter ; Petronio, Anna Sonia ; Sousa Uva, Miguel ; Delassi, Tahar ; Sisakian, Hamayak S. ; Papiashvili, Giorgi ; Chasnoits, Alexandr ; De Pauw, Michel ; Smajić, Elnur ; Shalganov, Tchavdar ; Avraamides, Panayiotis ; Kautzner, Josef ; Gerdes, Christian ; Alaziz, Ahmad Abd ; Kampus, Priit ; Vassilikos, Vassilios P. ; Csanádi, Zoltán ; Arnar, David O. ; Galvin, Joseph ; Barsheshet, Alon ; Caldarola, Pasquale ; Rakisheva, Amina ; Filippatos, Gerasimos ; Bytyçi, Ibadete ; Kerimkulova, Alina ; Kalejs, Oskars ; Njeim, Mario ; Puodziukynas, Aras ; Groben, Laurent ; Sammut, Mark A. ; Grosu, Aurel ; Boskovic, Aneta ; Moustaghfir, Abdelhamid ; Kalman, Jonathan M. ; de Groot, Natasja ; Poposka, Lidija ; Anfinsen, Ole-Gunnar ; Mitkowski, Przemyslaw P. ; Cavaco, Diogo ; Siliste, Calin ; Mikhaylov, Evgeny N. ; Bertelli, Luca ; Kojic, Dejan ; Hatala, Robert ; La Meir, Mark ; Fras, Zlatko ; Arribas, Fernando ; Juhlin, Tord ; Sticherling, Christian ; Abid, Leila ; Atar, Ilyas ; Sychov, Oleg ; Bates, Matthew G. D. ; Zakirov, Nodir U. ; Lane, Deirdre A. ; Lebeau, Jean-Pierre ; Lettino, Maddalena ; Lip, Gregory Y. H. ; Pinto, Fausto J. ; Thomas, G. Neil ; Valgimigli, Marco ; Van Gelder, Isabelle C. ; Van Putte, Bart P. ; Watkins, Caroline L. ; Kirchhof, Paulus ; Kühne, Michael ; Aboyans, Victor ; Ahlsson, Anders ; Balsam, Pawel ; Bauersachs, Johann ; Benussi, Stefano ; Brandes, Axel ; Braunschweig, Frieder ; Camm, A. John ; Capodanno, Davide ; Casadei, Barbara ; Conen, David ; Crijns, Harry J. G. M. ; Delgado, Victoria ; Dobrev, Dobromir ; Drexel, Heinz ; Eckardt, Lars ; Folliguet, Thierry ; Gorenek, Bulent ; Haeusler, Karl Georg ; Heidbuchel, Hein ; Iung, Bernard ; Katus, Hugo A. ; Kotecha, Dipak ; Landmesser, Ulf ; Leclercq, Christophe ; Lewis, Basil S. ; Mascherbauer, Julia ; Merino, Jose Luis ; Merkely, Béla ; Mont, Lluís ; Mueller, Christian ; Nagy, Klaudia V. ; Oldgren, Jonas ; Pavlović, Nikola ; Pedretti, Roberto F. E.
• Date: 2020
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44357
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Guidelines; Atrial fibrillation; Anticoagulation; Vitamin K antagonists; Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants; Left atrial appendage occlusion; Rate control; Rhythm control; Cardioversion; Antiarrhythmic drugs; Catheter ablation; Pulmonary vein isolation; Left atrial ablation; AF surgery; Upstream therapy; ABC pathway; Screening; Stroke; Recommendations
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto da ULisboa

Description

Atrial fibrillation (AF) poses significant burden to patients, physicians, and healthcare systems globally. Substantial research efforts and resources are being directed towards gaining detailed information about the mechanisms underlying AF, its natural course and effective treatments (see also the ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine: CardioMed) and new evidence is continuously generated and published. The complexity of AF requires a multifaceted, holistic, and multidisciplinary approach to the management of AF patients, with their active involvement in partnership with clinicians. Streamlining the care of patients with AF in daily clinical practice is a challenging but essential requirement for effective management of AF. In recent years, substantial progress has been made in the detection of AF and its management, and new evidence is timely integrated in this third edition of the ESC guidelines on AF. The 2016 ESC AF Guidelines introduced the concept of the five domains to facilitate an integrated structured approach to AF care and promote consistent, guideline-adherent management for all patients. The Atrial Fibrillation Better Care (ABC) approach in the 2020 ESC AF Guidelines is a continuum of this approach, with the goal to further improve the structured management of AF patients, promote patient values, and finally improve patient outcomes.