title: [Treatment of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: the Search for Optimal Solutions].
abstract: Atrial fibrillation (AF) - the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice, impair the quality of life significantly increases morbidity and mortality. Current methods of treatment of patients with AF, except anticoagulant therapy hitherto failed to provide significant improvement in cardiovascular events are of limited effectiveness and cause significant side effects. The article presents the current opportunities and challenges for the treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation. Analysis of these data will allow for an informed choice of treatment facilities for individual patients. Appreciates the role of oral anticoagulants and the occluder appendage of the left atrium in the prevention of thromboembolic complications. We consider the current possibilities of improving the efficiency and tolerability of pharmacotherapy AF antiarrhythmics. We discuss the latest achievements of non-pharmacological treatment of AF, including catheter ablation in the left atrium and change the patients lifestyle.
authors.affiliation: Kuban State Medical University, Krasnodar, Russia.
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Kanorskii
mesh_terms: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D000070497:Healthy Lifestyle; D006325:Heart Atria; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; D000925:Anticoagulants
keywords: antiarrhythmic drugs; atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; oral anticoagulation; the closure of the left atrial appendage