4 Topic Commentaries

Navigating the Irregular Road

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  Fred M. Kusumoto, MD, FACC

  Cardiac Electrophysiology

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  Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

  I call AFib the low back pain of cardiology – it's common, chronic, hard to manage, and we don't have great therapies for it,

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  Hugh Calkins, MD, FACC

  Cardiac Electrophysiology

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  Johns Hopkins Medicine

  We often see people who are getting little bursts of atrial tachycardia, not enough to call it AFib, but their chances of getting AFib are high if followed over time,

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  Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD

  Cardiology (Electrophysiology)

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  University of Adelaide

  Lifestyle and risk factor modification is front and center in the new guideline – serving as the central pillar of our three pillars of AFib management,

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  Christopher V. DeSimone, M.D., Ph.D.

  Cardiac Electrophysiology

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  Mayo Clinic

  Patients really do feel tremendous improvement in their quality of life when we keep them in normal rhythm,

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