Contents: Section I. Clinical Spectrum of Atrial Fibrillation: 1. Atrial Fibrillation: An Overview/Rohit Goel, Nagender S Chouhan, Praveen Chandra. 2. Risk Factors for Atrial Fibrillation/Ravinder S Rao, Rajeev Gupta. 3. Valvular Atrial Fibrillation: How is It Different from Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation?/Sanjiv Sharma, Varsha Koul, Varun Gupta. 4. Homocysteine and Atrial Fibrillation/GS Sainani, Rajesh Sainani. 5. Vitamin D Deficiency and Atrial Fibrillation/Jabir Abdullakutty, Sajan Ahmad Z. 6. Electrolyte Imbalance and Atrial Fibrillation/Praveen Jain, Mohammad Jibran. 7. Anemia and Atrial Fibrillation/RK Saran, Gaurav Chaudhary, Dharam Prakash, Vasudha Jain. 8. Sepsis and Atrial Fibrillation/Soumitra Kumar, Ankit Roy. 9. Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Atrial Fibrillation/RJ Manjuran. 10. Air Pollution and Atrial Fibrillation: Present Status and Future Directions/Geevar Zachariah, Deepak Nandan. 11. Predictors of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation/Harsh Wardhan, Nitin Aggarwal. 12. Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical Spectra/Peeyush Jain, Viney Jetley. 13. Syncope and Atrial Fibrillation/Anjan Lal Dutta, Ratnesh Rokade. 14. Chronic Kidney Disease and Atrial Fibrillation/Ramesh Hotchandani, Nikhil Bhat. 15. Hyperthyroidism and Atrial Fibrillation/Niteen V Deshpande, Parag Rahatekar. 16. Hypothyroidism and Atrial Fibrillation/PB Jayagopal, Jain T Kallarakkal. 17. Hypertension, Atrial Fibrillation and Other Cardiac Arrhythmias/C Venkata S Ram, Aslam M Khan, Mohsin Wali. 18. Increased Carotid Intima-media Thickness and Atrial Fibrillation/Priya Jagia, Pankaj Kumar, Arun Sharma. 19. Nuclear Scan and Atrial Fibrillation/GN Mahapatra, Mary Anne Joseph. 20. Women and Atrial Fibrillation/Niti Chadha, Kartikeya Bhargava. 21. Risk Factors for Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation/Deepti Kailath, Nitish Naik. 22. Rheumatic Heart Disease and Atrial Fibrillation/IB Vijayalakshmi. 23. Atrial Fibrillation in Children/Smita Mishra. 24. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Atrial Fibrillation/Asha Moorthy, Jain T Kallarakkal. 25. Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Atrial Fibrillation/Kaushal Gandhi, RR Mantri. 26. Histopathology of the Atria in Mitral Stenosis with Respect to the Underlying Rhythm: Implications for Treatment/CN Manjunath, Shenthar Jayaprakash. 27. Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure/Umesh C Samal, Thachathodiyl Rajesh. 28. The Mind-Heart Connection and Atrial Fibrillation/Rick Levy. 29. Initiators, Triggers and Promoters of Atrial Fibrillation/Rakesh K Sharma, Ravi Komatireddy, Rajiv K Sharma, Eddie I Murgasen, Raghuveer R Kura, Hanumanth K Reddy. 30. Pregnancy and Atrial Fibrillation/Tushar Bhatti, Dayasagar Rao. 31. Cardiac Infiltrating Disorders and Atrial Fibrillation/Dharmendra Jain, Balaji Lohiya, Geetha Subramanian. 32. Marfan’s Syndrome and Atrial Fibrillation/CP Roy, Mitendra Singh Yadav. 33. Mitral Valve Prolapse and Atrial Fibrillation/Ranjit Kumar Nath. 34. Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy with Atrial Fibrillation/Manotosh Panja. 35. Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Atrial Fibrillation/CK Ponde, Maulik Parekh. 36. Atrial Fibrillation and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy/Apoorv Mittal. 37. Atrial Fibrillation in Tropical Endomyocardial Fibrosis/G Vijayaraghavan. 38. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Atrial Fibrillation/Avi Kumar, Tanu Satija, HK Chopra. 39. Obesity and Prognosis in Atrial Fibrillation: With or without Oral Anticoagulants/Aditya Batra, Saurabh Arora. 40. Takotsubo Mimicking Acute Myocardial Infarction and Atrial Fibrillation/Sunil Kumar, Manish Ruhela. 41. Atrial Fibrillation in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension/Abhijeet Palshikar. Section II. Diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation: 42. ECG Profile in Atrial Fibrillation/Johnson Francis. 43. Three-dimensional Mapping in Atrial Fibrillation/Jayakeerthi Y Rao. 44. External Loop Recorder and Atrial Fibrillation/Viveka Kumar, Pratik Raval, Abhinit Gupta. 45. Implantable Loop Recorder in Atrial Fibrillation/Chetan P Shah, Mitul Shah. 46. Echocardiography in Atrial Fibrillation/V Amuthan, RVA Ananth. 47. Atrial Fibrillation, Left Atrial Size and Volume Evaluation in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation/Satish Govind, Shreesha Maiya. 48. Monitoring Devices in Atrial Fibrillation/Joy M Thomas, Vivek Muthukumaraswamy. 49. Role of Echo and Doppler in Atrial Fibrillation/Rakesh Gupta. 50. Superiority of Three-dimensional Echocardiography in Atrial Fibrillation Evaluation/Rajendrakumar Patel, Mahmoud Elsayed, HK Chopra, Navin C Nanda. 51. Atrial Fibrillation: Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography/Sameer Shrivastava, Biswajit Paul. 52. Evaluation of Diastolic Dysfunction in Atrial Fibrillation/Satish K Parashar. 53. Emergency Echocardiography and Atrial Fibrillation/Rekha Mishra, Krishna CK, RS Sambi, Harmeet Singh, HK Chopra. 54. Strain and Strain Rate Imaging and Atrial Fibrillation/Nitin J Burkule. 55. Incremental Value of Left Atrial Strain in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation/Manish Bansal, Ravi R Kasliwal. 56. Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography and Atrial Fibrillation/Naveen Garg, KK Kapur. 57. Multimodality Cardiac Imaging in Atrial Fibrillation/P Krishnam Raju, Chandramukhi Modi, Sridevi C. 58. Cardiac MRI and Atrial Fibrillation/Gina LaRocca, Amir Ahmadi, Jagat Narula. 59. Cardiac MRI and Atrial Fibrillation: An Indian Perspective/Mona Bhatia. 60. Cardiac CT and Atrial Fibrillation/Priya Jagia, Arun Sharma, Pankaj Kumar. Section III. Management Strategies of Atrial Fibrillation: 61. Yoga and Atrial Fibrillation/SC Manchanda, Kushal Madan. 62. Atrial Fibrillation in Acute STEMI and ACS/DB Pahlajani. 63. Atrial Fibrillation and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Impact in Selecting Antithrombotic Events/S Nagendra Boopathy, Sarat Chandra, Rajeev Agarwala. 64. AF Management Strategies in Medically Managed ACS/JPS Sawhney, Kaushal Gandhi, Saurabh Bagga, Simran Sawhney. 65. Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction/Jagdish S Hiremath, Kaushik Sheth. 66. STEMI with Atrial Fibrillation/Jaishankar Krishnamoorthy, Ajit S Mullasari. 67. Tenecteplase, STEMI and Atrial Fibrillation/Sandeep Bansal, Anwar H Ansari. 68. Oral Anticoagulants in the Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome and Atrial Fibrillation/Parneesh Arora, Upendra Kaul. 69. Atrial Fibrillation and Acute Coronary Syndrome/George Koshy, Venugopal K. 70. Paroxysmal Recurrent AF in ACS: Management Strategies/Saurabh Mehrotra, Mayank Singhal, Sundeep Mishra. 71. Telemedicine and Atrial Fibrillation/P Krishnam Raju, SG Prasad. 72. CHA2DS2-VASc Score and Atrial Fibrillation/Kajal Ganguly, Pradip Ghoshal, Santanu De, Arindam Basu, Auriom Kar. 73. NSTEMI and Atrial Fibrillation/BP Singh, Ravi Vishnu Prasad, Nishant Tripathy, Nirav Kumar. 74. Atrial Fibrillation in Critically Ill Patients/Julian Jhon Thottian, Benjo J Vazhappilly, PP Mohanan. 75. Atrial Fibrillation with Fast Ventricular Rate/SN Routray, NK Mohanty, Shishu Shankar Mishra, Biswaranjan Mishra. 76. Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation/Binoy John. 77. AF in Cardiogenic Shock and in Patients on IABP/Neeraj Bhalla. 78. Beta-blockers and Atrial Fibrillation/Abhilash SP, Narayanan Namboodiri.79. Calcium Channel Blockers and Atrial Fibrillation/Amit Handa, Raja Selvaraj. 80. Selection of Anti-arrhythmic Drugs in Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Role of Propafenone/Vinod Sharma, Sukriti. 81. Amiodarone in Atrial Fibrillation/Rabin Chakraborty, Arindam Pande. 82. Amiodarone in AF with Heart Failure/Vitull K Gupta, Meghna Gupta, Sonia Arora. 83. Amiodarone versus Propafenone in Atrial Fibrillation/NC Krishnamani. 84. Ivabradine and Atrial Fibrillation/Suman Bhandari, Sanjib K Patra, Milan Bhardwaj, Sujit Sawadatkar. 85. Recurrent Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: Management Strategies/Sarita Gulati. 86. Acenocoumarol in Atrial Fibrillation/AK Pancholia. 87. Role of Vitamin-K Antagonist in Prevention of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation/Santanu Guha, Bappaditya Kumar. 88. Apixaban and Stroke Prevention in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation/Rohit Goel, Nagender S Chouhan, Praveen Chandra. 89. Dabigatran and Stroke Prevention in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation/Vidyut Jain, Avani Jain. 90. Rivaroxaban: The Most Promising NOAC in Stroke Prevention in NVAF-Challenges in India and in the Real World/HK Chopra. 91. Oral Anticoagulant in Atrial Fibrillation for Stroke Prevention: Old is Gold/Viveka Kumar, Vivek Kumar. 92. NOAC in DVT and PE with or without Atrial Fibrillation/Mrinal Kanti Das. 93. Superiority of Novel Oral Anticoagulants over Vitamin-K Antagonists/Deep Chandh Raja, Aditya Kapoor. 94. Peripheral Vascular Disease, Atrial Fibrillation and New Oral Anticoagulants/NN Khanna, Emmanuel Auchi Edafe, Peter Dodo Yakubu, Obiora Ajuluchukwu, Rini Pramesti, Suparna Rao. 95. Oral Anticoagulants and Drug Interaction/Rajnish Sardana, Praloy Chakraborty. 96. Atrial Fibrillation: The Journey and Success Achieved/Ajay Kumar Sinha, Pramod Kumar, Vikas Singh, Anand Gopal, Dinanath, Shaheen Ahmad, Sanjeev Kumar, Mridu Sinha. 97. Fondaparinux and Atrial Fibrillation/Anunay Gupta, S Ramakrishnan. 98. Heparin in Atrial Fibrillation/Anurag Arora. 99. Pulmonary Embolism, Atrial Fibrillation and Tenecteplase/SS Iyengar. 100. Pulmonary Embolism and Atrial Fibrillation/Salil Vaidya, Satyajeet Suryawanshi, Shirish (MS) Hiremath. 101. Hypercoagulable State, Atrial Fibrillation and Role of Anticoagulation/Lekha Adik Pathak, Salil Shirodkar, Ronak Ruparelia, Ankur Jhavar. 102. Rosuvastatin and Atrial Fibrillation/Saumitra Ray, Siddhartha Mani. 103. Bisoprolol and Atrial Fibrillation/Jamshed J Dalal. 104. Prasugrel in Atrial Fibrillation/Geetha Subramanian, Balaji Lohiya, ­Dharmendra Jain, Bhupendra Sihag. 105. Ticagrelor and Atrial Fibrillation/Gaurav Mohan, GS Wander. 106. Role of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Atrial Fibrillation Prevention/Shashank R Joshi. 107. The Combo of Atrial Fibrillation and Stenting in ACS: Triple Therapy or Dual Therapy/PC Manoria, Pankaj Manoria, Piyush Manoria. 108. Atrial Fibrillation in Critical Care: Current Management Strategies/Chitra Mehta, Yatin Mehta. 109. Atrial Fibrillation in Emergency in Patients with Sepsis: Management Strategies/Surabhi Awasthi, Neelam Bisht, Nikhil Bhat. 110. Natural History and Management of ‘Lone Atrial Fibrillation’/Ashokan Nambiar. 111. Lone Atrial Fibrillation/Pawan K Sharma, Joseph Brent Muhlestein. 112. Risk of Thromboembolism after Cardioversion in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation/S Shanmugasundaram, U Ilayaraja, Amirtha Ganesh. 113. Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke/Apoorva Pauranik, Alok Mandliya. 114. Embolic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation/Brian Pinto, Vihang Shah. 115. Hemorrhagic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation: A Double Jeopardy/Sanjeev Kumar Jha, Pervez Ahmed Khan. 116. Refractory Atrial Fibrillation Postradiofrequency Ablation: Modern Management Strategies/Rakesh Varma, Anwar Hussain Ansari, Deepak Tiwari. 117. Radiofrequency Ablation versus Drug Therapy for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrilla/Shomu Bohora. 118. Ethical and Medicolegal Issues and Atrial Fibrillation/KK Aggarwal. Section IV. Other Arrhythmias and Atrial Fibrillation: 119. Medical Management versus RF Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation/G Anitha Sathishkumar, Ulhas M Pandurangi. 120. Management of Atrial Fibrillation with Left Bundle Branch Block/Aparna Jaswal, Satyendra Tiwari. 121. Best Strategy for Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation/Jaishankar Krishnamoorthy, IVMR Thammiraju, B Hygriv Rao. 122. Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy/AM Karthigesan, G Sengottuvelu. Section V. Interventions in Atrial Fibrillation: 123. Radiofrequency Ablation in AF: Present Status and Future Directions/Balbir Singh. 124. Radiofrequency Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation/Vikas Kataria, Mohan Nair. 125. Atrial Fibrillation: Interventional Management Strategies/Chance M Witt, Krishna Kancharla, Samuel J Asirvatham. 126. Ablate and Pace in Atrial Fibrillation/Viveka Kumar, Rajendra Kumar Agarwal. 127. Complications of Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation/Pawan K Sharma, NK Chopra, HK Chopra. 128. Left Atrial Appendage Closure and Atrial Fibrillation-Challenges Ahead: Indian Scenario/Prafulla G Kerkar, Arvind Singh. 129. Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Devices and Complications during/after Implantation/Surendra Chutani, Arti Shah, Bharat Kantharia. 130. Atrial Fibrillation after PCI in STEMI: Management Strategies/Sameer Mehta, Alexandra Ferre, Pablo J Yepez-Bracamonte, Marco Castillo, Olga Reynbakh, Daniela Parra, Daniel Rodriguez, Estefania Oliveros. 131. Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter after Cardiac Surgery/J Shiv Kumar, M Sitaram, Sajit Pavitran. 132. Atrial Fibrillation during Coronary Intervention: Management Strategy/Neeraj Pandit, Ankit Gupta. 133. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Atrial Fibrillation/Poonam Malhotra Kapoor. 134. Optimal Antithrombotic Therapy after Drug-eluting Stent Implantation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation/B Vogel, U Baber, Samin K Sharma. 135. Coronary Embolism in Atrial Fibrillation/Mohan Bhargava, Hamed Bashir, Prachal Bhargava. 136. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation/Gautam Sharma, Vijay Bohra, C Narasimhan. 137. Role of Devices in Heart Failure with Atrial Fibrillation/Rajeev Kumar Rajput. Section VI. Cardiac Surgery And Atrial Fibrillation: 138. Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation during Concomitant Cardiac Procedures/Yugal K Mishra, Pritam Pal, Syed Asrar Qadri. 139. Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiac Surgery/OP Yadava. 140. Surgical AF Ablation/Anuj Sangal, Ratna Malika Kumar, Rajneesh Malhotra. Section VII. Future Directions in Atrial Fibrillation: 141. LAA Occlusion and Atrial Fibrillation: Is It an Alternative to NOAC?/David R Holmes. 142. Stroke Prevention in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: How to Choose an NOAC, Which One, When and for How Long?/Anil Dhall, Nitin Kumar. 143. Oral Anticoagulant Clinic in Atrial Fibrillation or Home Monitoring: Is There a Need?/GR Kane, Ankur Jhavar, Jaideep Rajebahadur. 144. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Atrial Fibrillation: How to Manage?/Avinash Verma, Vijay Kumar, Ashok Seth. 145. Atrial Fibrillation Following Cardiac Surgery/Naresh Trehan, Balbir Singh. 146. Need for National Atrial Fibrillation Registry in India/CG Bahuleyan, M Shifas Babu. Index.