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2016 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS
Paulus Kirchhof, Stefano Benussi, Dipak Kotecha, Anders Ahlsson, Dan Atar, Barbara Casadei, Manuel Castella, Hans-Christoph Diener, Hein Heidbuchel, Jeroen Hendriks, Gerhard Hindricks, Antonis S Manolis, Jonas Oldgren, Bogdan Alexandru Popescu, Ulrich Schotten, Bart Van Putte, Panagiotis Vardas, ESC Scientific Document Group
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National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian Clinical Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation 2018
NHFA CSANZ Atrial Fibrillation Guideline Working Group, David Brieger, MBBS, PhD, John Amerena, MBBS, FRACP, FCSANZ, John Attia, MD, PhD, FRACP, Beata Bajorek, BPharm, PhD, Kim
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Published in Heart Lung and Circulation, October 2018 Volume 27, Issue 10, Pages 1209–1266

2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 HA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society
January CT, Wann LS, Calkins H, Chen LY, Cigarroa JE, Cleveland Jr JC, Ellinor PT, Ezakowitz MD, Field ME, Furie KL, Heindenreich PA, Murray KT, Shea JB, Tracy CM, Yancey CW. 2019 AHA/ ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 HA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2019), doi: https://doi. org/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.01.011

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