Volume : 6, Issue : 1, January - 2017

ETIOLOGY AND CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, ITS RELATION WITH LEFT ATRIAL SIZE

Sathyan E, Anbazhagan, Gandhi Srinivasarao

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">BACKGROUND</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Atrial fiillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmias encountered in clinical practice, which is caused by various etiologies and it leads to morbidity and mortality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">AIM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;&#10;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">To know various clinical presentation of atrial fiillation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;&#10;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">To know various etiologies of atrial fiillation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;&#10;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">To know the relation between atrial fiillation and left atrial size.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">METHODS AND MATERIAL:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">&nbsp;The material of this study was patients attending the department of general medicine in collaboration with cardiology department, MMCH &amp;RI ,Kanchipuram. The study group consists of 50 cases of atrial fiillation. A set of investigations were done to detect underlying causes and to know the left atrial size. Similar etiologies of AF and left atrial size is calculated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">RESULTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Most commonclinical presentation was dyspnoea, chronic rheumatic heart disease was the most common underlying cause, left atrial size most commonly associated with AF was between 4 to 5.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>