Questioning Medicine

Episode 264: 263. Rates of Atrial Fibrillation 12 months After Onset of Hospitalized Transient AF

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 patients who have new-onset transient AF detected during a hospitalization for noncardiac surgery or medical illness and are discharged in sinus rhythm, approximately 1 in 3 have AF detected in the year after hospital discharge. Those that did not have afib only had a 5% risk (1 in 20) -- we dont know what this means for rates of patient oriented outcomeshttps://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-1411?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed