Summary
Definition
History and exam
Key diagnostic factors
- presencia de factores de riesgo
- pulso irregular
Other diagnostic factors
- palpitaciones
- hipotensión
- aumento de la presión venosa yugular
- ruidos cardíacos adicionales
- mareos
- disnea
- estertores
- evidencia de accidente cerebrovascular
Risk factors
- mayor edad
- hipertensión
- hipotensión ortostática
- diabetes mellitus
- insuficiencia cardíaca.
- cardiopatía valvular y cardiopatía estructural
- arteriopatía coronaria y síndrome coronario agudo
- otras arritmias auriculares
- sepsis y enfermedades críticas
- cirugía cardíaca o torácica
- obesidad
- hipertiroidismo
- enfermedades pulmonares hipóxicas
- consumo de alcohol
- tabaquismo
- trastornos inflamatorios
- ejercicio excesivo
- estatura
- cáncer y quimioterapia
Diagnostic investigations
1st investigations to order
- electrocardiograma (ECG)
- electrolitos séricos
- biomarcadores cardíacos
- pruebas de función tiroidea
- radiografía del tórax (RT)
- ecocardiograma transtorácico
- ecocardiograma transesofágico (ETE)
Investigations to consider
- estudio electrofisiológico
- pruebas de esfuerzo con ejercicio
Treatment algorithm
hemodinámicamente inestable
hemodinámicamente estable con trombo en la aurícula izquierda, o presencia de trombo desconocida/duración de la FA desconocida
hemodinámicamente estables sin trombo en la aurícula izquierda: inicio de síntomas <48 horas
hemodinámicamente estables sin trombo en la aurícula izquierda: inicio de síntomas ≥48 horas
hemodinámicamente estables sin trombo en la aurícula izquierda: asintomático
Contributors
Authors
Arti N. Shah, MS, MD
Director
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Elmhurst Hospital Center
Elmhurst
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York
NY
Declarações
ANS declares that she has no competing interests.
Bharat K. Kantharia, MD, FRCP, FAHA, FACC, FESC, FHRS
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
President
Cardiovascular and Heart Rhythm Consultants
Attending and Consultant Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Mount Sinai Hospitals
New York Methodist Hospital
New York
NY
Disclosures
BKK declares that he has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Diwakar Jain, MD, FACC, FRCP, FASNC
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Westchester Medical Center
Valhalla
NY
Disclosures
DJ declares that he has no competing interests.
Farooq A. Padder, MD, MRCP, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hahnemann University Hospital
Woodbury
NJ
Disclosures
FAP declares that he has no competing interests.
Kim Rajappan, MA, MD, MRCP
Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist
Cardiac Department
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
UK
Disclosures
KR declares that she has no competing interests.
Differentials
- Aleteo auricular
- Síndrome de Wolff-Parkinson-White
- Taquicardia auricular
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