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Figure 13.
Arrhythmia-free survival after electrical
cardioversion in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation.
The lower curve represents outcome after a single shock
when no prophylactic drug therapy was given. The upper
curve depicts the outcome with repeated electrical cardioversions
in conjunction with antiarrhythmic drug prophylaxis.
ECV indicates electrical cardioversion; SR, sinus rhythm.
Reproduced with permission from van Gelder et al., Arch
Intern Med 1996;156:2585–92, © 1996, American Medical
Association (304).
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Heart Association, Inc., and the European society of Cardiology
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