ArticleBMC cardiovascular disorders2017
Surface ECG interatrial block-guided treatment for stroke prevention: rationale for an attractive hypothesis.
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- Electrocardiographic Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
- Interatrial Block Detected by a Series of ECGs Before and During Acute Coronary Syndrome Predicts Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter, and Ischemic Stroke.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Interatrial Block, Bayés Syndrome, Left Atrial Enlargement, and Atrial Failure.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Relationship between electrocardiographic interatrial blocks and echocardiographic indices of left atrial function in acute heart failure.Heart and vessels · 2022Article
- The Prevalence of Advanced Interatrial Block and Its Relationship to Left Atrial Function in Patients with Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Bayés syndrome phenocopy in a patient with 1: 1 atrial flutter and corrected tetralogy of Fallot.Anatolian journal of cardiology · 2020Article
- Interatrial block in prediction of all-cause mortality after first-ever ischemic stroke.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2019Observational
- Interatrial block and ischemic stroke.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Article
- Second-degree interatrial block: Brief review and concept.Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc · 2018Review
- Bayés' syndrome: Time to consider early anticoagulation?Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2018Review
- [Bayés Syndrome, Stroke and Dementia].Archivos peruanos de cardiologia y cirugia cardiovascularReview
- The prevalence and prognostic significance of interatrial block in the general population.Annals of medicineArticle
- Simulation of inter atrial block based on a human atrial model.Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. BArticle
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Abstract
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia and is associated with stroke, cognitive impairment, and cardiovascular death. Some predisposing factors - as aging, diabetes, hypertension - induce and maintain electrophysiological and ultrastructural remodeling that usually includes fibrosis. Interatrial conduction disturbances play a crucial role in the initiation of atrial fibrosis and in its associated complications. The diagnosis of interatrial blocks (IABs) is easy to perform using the surface ECG. IAB is classified as partial when the P wave duration is ≥120 ms, and advanced if the P wave also presents a biphasic pattern in II, III and aVF. IAB is very frequent in the elderly and, particularly in the case of the advanced type, is associated with AF, AF recurrences, stroke, and dementia. The anticoagulation in elderly patients at high risk of AF without documented arrhythmias is an open issue but recent data suggest that it might have a role, particularly in elderly patients with structural heart disease, high CHA
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