The 2018 Korean Heart Rhythm Society Guidelines for Integrated Management of Korean patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common form of sustained arrhythmia in elderly patients. However, AF is often detected during health screening, or accidentally during testing for other diseases; some patients lack clinical symptoms. Nevertheless, AF increases the incidence of ischemic stroke and other thrombotic events, and compromises cardiovascular prognosis in terms of heart failure, dementia, and hospitalization. Therefore, initial AF...