The proportion of those having at least one POAF episode detected by the ILR reached 54.1%, including 46.9% with early POAF and 36.7% with late POAF.

The study, Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation (poAF) after Cardiac Surgery: Bridging the Gap in Detection with a Wearable Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring Device, enrolled 100 patients who underwent open ...

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) has released new evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and treatment of perioperative and postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) and ...

Post-operative atrial fibrillation (POAF) often is dismissed as a transient phenomenon. But a Loyola University Medical Center study has found that POAF can significantly increase the risk of ...

There was an association between POAF and development of permanent atrial fibrillation (OR, 3.2; 95 percent CI, 1.9 to 5.4; P < 0.001), which was associated with increased risk of neurologic ...

Patients who develop postoperative A-fib (POAF) after CABG have a lower long-term thromboembolic risk than do patients with nonvalvular A-fib that is not related to recent surgery, a retrospective ...

Colchicine reduced AF incidence by nearly half 1 month after surgery (P =.021). COPPS-POAF included 336 patients (mean age, 65 years) from COPPS, a multicenter, double blind, randomized trial.

Postoperative atrial fibrillation (poAF) is a common complication of cardiothoracic surgery with an incidence between 10 and 50 percent. This condition typically peaks two-three days following surgery ...

A recent prospective, observational study looked to investigate the use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for use in patients with postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF). POAF, the most ...