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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Katritsis, Demosthenes G.
• Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B.
• Karvouni, Evangelia
• Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios
• Korovesis, Socrates
• Paxinos, George
• Anagnostopoulos, Constantine E.
• Camm, A.John

Titel

Comparison of effectiveness of carvedilol versus bisoprolol for maintenance of sinus rhythm after cardioversion of persistent atrial fibrillation

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of cardiology, 2003-11, Vol.92 (9), p.1116-1119

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ninety patients who underwent cardioversion of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) were randomized to bisoprolol 5 to 10 mg once daily or carvedilol 12.5 to 25 mg twice daily. Using intention-to-treat analysis, 23 patients (46%) in the bisoprolol group and 17 patients (32%) in the carvedilol group relapsed into AF during the 1 year of total follow-up (p = 0.486). Patients treated with carvedilol had a 14% (hazard ratio 0.86) lower risk of relapse of AF compared with patients in the bisoprolol group, although results were statistically insignificant (p = 0.661) after controlling for patient age, gender, baseline heart rate, and left atrial diameter.