ACC/AHA/ESC Practice Guideline
ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation—Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation) Developed in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society

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ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines
atrial fibrillation
arrhythmia
heart rate
anticoagulants
antiarrhythmia agents
electrophysiology
pharmacology

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This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in June 2006; by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in June 2006; and by the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines in June 2006.

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This article has been copublished in the August 15, 2006, issues of Circulationand the Journal of the American College of Cardiologyand the August 16, 2006, issue of the European Heart Journal.

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