Outpatient treatment of recent-onset atrial fibrillation with the "pill-in-the-pocket" approach

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 2384-2391

  Alboni, Paolo ^a   Botto, Giovanni L ^b   Baldi, Nicola ^c   Luzi, Mario ^b   Russo, Vitantonio ^c   Gianfranchi, Lorella ^a   Marchi, Paola ^d   Calzolari, Massimo ^e   Solano, Alberto ^f   Baroffio, Raffaele ^g   Gaggioli, Germano ^a  

^a Ospedale Civile   (Italy)

^b SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SS Annunziata Hospital   (Italy)

^d Ospedale del Delta   (Italy)

^e S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^g Department of Urology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART PALPITATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PILL IN POCKET APPROACH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYCARDIA; VERTIGO; AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLECAINIDE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPAFENONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF ADMINISTRATION; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 16544392427     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa041233     Document Type: Article

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