Electrophysiology

  • The beat goes on: Highlights from the new American and European A-fib guidelines

    Sandra Howell, MBBS, MEd, MSc, MPhil, Alphonsus Liew, MBBS and Christopher Aldo Rinaldi, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2025, 92 (5) 297-300;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.25030

    • The authors discuss and compare the latest atrial fibrillation guidelines from American and European medical societies.

  • New atrial fibrillation guideline: Modify risk, control rhythm, prevent progression

    Laura A. Campbell, MD, Jessica P. Ammon, DO, Rachana Kombathula, MD, Naa’irah Muhammad, MD and Christopher D. Jackson, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2025, 92 (5) 291-296;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24067

    • Key updates in the new American guideline include recommendations for aggressive lifestyle and risk-factor modifications, annual assessment of thromboembolic risk, and early rhythm control.

  • Shortness of breath in a 52-year-old man with HIV and severe mitral regurgitation

    Felix Wangmang, MD, PharmD, Achilles Aiken, MD and Kuang-Yuh Chyu, MD, PhD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2025, 92 (1) 23-30;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24060

    • The patient presented with 3 weeks of acute on chronic dyspnea on exertion with progression to dyspnea at rest and associated orthopnea.