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A 63-Year-Old Man with Atrial Fibrillation and Syncope

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A 63-year-old man was hospitalized for atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular rate. Diagnosis and management are discussed.

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  1. Department of Medicine / Division of Cardiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Samuel L. Johnston & Brian Olshansky

  2. Department of Cardiology, Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, IA, USA

    Jennifer J. Torgerson

  3. Department of Cardiology, MercyOne Waterloo Heart Care Device Clinic IA, Waterloo, IA, USA

    Aleksandra Tosic

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  1. N. IH 35 3000, St. David’s Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA

    Andrea Natale

  2. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Paul J. Wang

  3. Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Austin, TX, USA

    Amin Al-Ahmad

  4. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    N. A. Mark Estes

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Johnston, S.L., Torgerson, J.J., Tosic, A., Olshansky, B. (2020). A 63-Year-Old Man with Atrial Fibrillation and Syncope. In: Natale, A., Wang, P., Al-Ahmad, A., Estes, N. (eds) Cardiac Electrophysiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28533-3_17

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