Patient Perspective :Echocardiographic Prediction of Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation In Patients with Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis and Normal Sinus Rhyth

Citation : Fahriye Vatansever Agca, Ozan Kinay, Mustafa Karaca,Muge Ildizli Demirbas,Serdar Biceroglu,Baris Kilicarslan,Cem Nazli,A. Oktay Ergene.Echocardiographic Prediction of Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation In Patients with Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis and Normal Sinus Rhythm. JAFIB .2008 Sep;1(3): 139-144.

Mitral stenosis is a valvular heart disease characterized by the narrowing of the orifice of the mitral valve of the heart.Rheumatic mitral stenosis (RMS) increases the risk of both atrial fibrillation (AF) and thromboembolism.

Dr. Karaca et al from Atakalp Heart Hospital Cardiology Department,Turkey report the benefit of echocardiography to predict symptomatic AF in a study on patients with mitral stenosis and normal sinus rhythm.