CLINICAL PROFILE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Dr. Arun Makwana; Dr. Shraddha Shrivastava; Dr. Ami H. Trivedi

Volume : V, Issue : X, October - 2015

CLINICAL PROFILE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Dr. Arun Makwana, Dr. Shraddha Shrivastava, Dr. Ami H. Trivedi

Abstract :

AF is typically a disease of middle age and elderly, affecting >10% of those are older than 75 years of age. Risk factors include Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Diseases like CHF, valvular Heart diseases, hypertension, previous MI. Although clinical hyperthyroidism is associated with new–onset AF, the prevalence is low in a population of patients with AF. In developing countries, rheumatic valvular heart disease, IHD, hypertension and congenital heart disease are the most commonly related conditions. The incidence of rheumatic heart disease is decreasing in developed countries while in India it still accounts for 30–45% of all cardiac cases in hospital practice. Rheumatic heart disease is still the most common antecedent disease related to the occurrence of atrial fiillation in India. Mitral regurgitation is followed by mitral stenosis in the aetiology of atrial fiillation. RESULTS In the present study the maximum number of cases were between age group 60–79 yrs (20 cases).The most common symptom was dyspnoea. The maximum number of cases of RHD 34 (68%) were associated with AF. The most common valvular lesion associated with atrial fiillation was mitral stenosis.