Recurrent, Delayed Hemorrhage Associated with Edoxaban after Deep Brain Stimulation Lead Placement by Walavan Sivakumar, Sarah T. Garber, Lauren E. Schrock, Paul A. House

“…The authors report a case of a man who presented with delayed, recurrent intracranial hemorrhage months after successful deep brain stimulator placement for Parkinson disease while on edoxaban for atrial fibrillation. Further reports on the use of novel anticoagulants after intracranial surgery are acutely needed to help assess the true relative risk they pose.…”
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Technical Approach to Laparoscopic Examination of the Small Bowel in Gallstone Ileus by Sarah Assali, John Mourany, Brendan Jones, Lauren Dudas, Nova Szoka

“…The patient’s postoperative course was complicated by new-onset atrial fibrillation which was treated medically with good response. …”
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Bisoprolol Transdermal Patch Is Effective for the Treatment of AF Tachycardia by Yoh Arita, Hajime Saeki, Miwa Miyoshi, Shinji Hasegawa

“…Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an irregular and often rapid heart rate that can increase the risk of stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications. …”
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First Case Report of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Showing Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia Induced by Thyroid Storm due to Graves’ Disease by Masaki Matsubara, Tomohiro Tanaka, Akinori Wakamiya, Tamiko Tamanaha, Hisashi Makino, Tomonori Tanei, Takeshi Aiba, Kengo Kusano, Kiminori Hosoda

“…A 48-year-old man who was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) due to a plakophilin 2 gene mutation developed acute both-sided heart failure with rapid atrial fibrillation and was hospitalized. After admission, sustained ventricular tachycardia, which was refractory to antiarrhythmic agents, occurred repeatedly, and required electrical cardioversion. …”
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A Rare Cause of Acute Kidney Injury in a Female Patient with Breast Cancer Presenting as Renal Colic by Roxana Jurubita, Bogdan Obrisca, Gener Ismail

“…Given the rarity of the disease and the paucity of the reported cases in the previous literature a high index of suspicion must be maintained not only in the classical cardiac sources of systemic emboli (atrial fibrillation, dilated cardiomyopathy, or endocarditis), but also in the situations when a hypercoagulable state is presumed. …”
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Recent advances in the prevention of secondary ischemic stroke: A narrative review by Yue Qiao, Aminah I. Fayyaz, Yuchuan Ding, Xunming Ji, Wenbo Zhao

“…These include the refinement of antithrombotic regimens, the use of direct oral anticoagulants in managing atrial fibrillation, and the implementation of more aggressive targets for blood pressure, lipid management, and glucose management. …”
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Use of Idarucizumab to Revert the Anticoagulant Effect of Dabigatran in Heart Transplant Surgery: An Institutional Experience by Álvaro Herrera-Escandón, Orlando Castaño-Cifuentes, Carlos A. Plata-Mosquera

“…Direct oral anticoagulants have emerged as an alternative to the use of coumarins in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). The main disadvantage of this group of drugs is that there was no specific reversal agent available that would allow an urgent reversal of the anticoagulant effect. …”
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Primary Cardiac Lymphoma Presenting with Thrombocytopenia, Right Heart Failure, and Cardiogenic Shock by Samantha Kurniawan, Gita Mathur, Yvonne Bogun, Giselle Kidson-Gerber

“…He deteriorated into cardiogenic shock precipitated by atrial fibrillation, with worsening thrombocytopenia (18 × 109/L) in the setting of ischaemic hepatitis. …”
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Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest due to Coronary Spasm with Recurrent Ventricular Fibrillation by Vrijraj Sinhji Rathod, Tanmay Kanitkar, Grigoris Karamasis

“…On return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), he was found to be in fast atrial fibrillation (AF); an invasive coronary angiogram revealed unobstructed coronary arteries. …”
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Prior Anticoagulation and Risk of Hemorrhagic Transformation in Acute Stroke: A Post Hoc Analysis of the PRODAST Study by Gerrit M. Grosse, Anika Hüsing, Andreas Stang, Nils Kuklik, Marcus Brinkmann, Martin Grond, Jens D. Rollnik, Lars Marquardt, Andrea Kraft, Eckhard Schlemm, Carsten Eggers, Christoph C. Eschenfelder, Christian Weimar, Hans‐Christoph Diener

“…Background Oral anticoagulation is highly effective in preventing ischemic events in patients with atrial fibrillation. Still, a considerable number of patients have an acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack despite anticoagulation. …”
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Successful Resolution of a Large Left Atrial and Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus with Rivaroxaban by Safwan Gaznabi, Ashraf Abugroun, Hasan Mahbub, Enrique Campos

“…The patient had history of atrial fibrillation and was planned for cardioversion. Preprocedure transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) revealed a large multilobulated mobile thrombus in the left atrial appendage. …”
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Colonic Dieulafoy’s Lesion: A Rare Cause of Lower Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage and Review of Endoscopic Management by Christopher Ma, Rajveer Hundal, Edwin J. Cheng

“…In addition, there was associated presyncope and anemia (hemoglobin 69 g/L) in the setting of supratherapeutic warfarin anticoagulation (INR 6.2) for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy was negative for an upper GI source of bleeding but on colonoscopy an actively oozing Dieulafoy’s lesion was identified in the transverse colon. …”
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Emergency Splenectomy in a patient with primary immune thrombocytopenia and hemoperitoneum by Liermis Michael Dita Salabert, José Eduardo Consuegra Díaz, Carlos Jaime Geroy

“…A case of a 40 year-old female patient of rural origin with a history of mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation, diagnosed two months prior to her admission to the Dr. …”
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Electrical Injury-Induced Complete Atrioventricular Block: Is Permanent Pacemaker Required? by Osman Beton, Tolga Han Efe, Hakki Kaya, Murat Bilgin, Lale Dinc Asarcikli, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz

“…Asystole, premature ventricular contractions, ventricular tachycardia, conduction disorders (various degrees of heart blocks, bundle-brunch blocks), supraventricular tachycardia, and atrial fibrillation are the other arrhythmic complications of electrical injury. …”
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Sick Sinus Syndrome and Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy by Ahmed S. Yassin, Ahmed Subahi, Hossam Abubakar, Ahmed Rashed, Mohamed Shokr

“…Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is associated with increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, and bradyarrhythmias. However, sinus node dysfunction is relatively infrequent in the setting of takotsubo cardiomyopathy. …”
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Supraventricular Arrhythmias after Thoracotomy: Is There a Role for Autonomic Imbalance? by George Vretzakis, Marina Simeoforidou, Konstantinos Stamoulis, Metaxia Bareka

“…The overall incidence varies between 3.2% and 30% in the literature, while atrial fibrillation is the most common form. These arrhythmias usually have an uneventful clinical course and revert to normal sinus rhythm, usually before patent’s discharge from hospital. …”
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An Unusual Cause of Transient Ischemic Attack in a Patient with Pacemaker by Jagadeesh Kumar Kalavakunta, Vishal Gupta, Basil Paulus, William Lapenna

“…We present a 77-year-old man with history of atrial fibrillation and pacemaker placement who was admitted for transient ischemic attack. …”
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Staying up Late-An Independent Risk Factor for Stroke by Fanglue CHEN, Renming XIE, Yanru LI, Da LEI

“…Conditional logistic regression analysis showed that hypertension (OR=4.385), diabetes (OR=2.657), dyslipidemia (OR=2.727), smoking (OR=2.299), drinking (OR=2.528), staying up late (OR=1.732), atrial fibrillation or valvular heart disease (OR=9.070) were the risk factors for stroke.Conclusion:In addition to hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, heart disease, smoking, addicted to alcohol and other main risk factors, staying up late is another independent risk factor for stroke.…”
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Focal Left Atrial Tachycardia in a Patient with Left Ventricular Noncompaction by Shailendra Singh, Gulam Parihar, Rohit Rao, Vishal Goyal

“…Atrial arrhythmia usually seen is atrial fibrillation. We report a rare case of focal left atrial tachycardia in an 18-year-old patient who presented for evaluation of persistent tachycardia. …”
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Left Atrial Anatomy Relevant to Catheter Ablation by Damián Sánchez-Quintana, José Ramón López-Mínguez, Yolanda Macías, José Angel Cabrera, Farhood Saremi

“…Although the substrates of atrial fibrillation (AF), its initiation and maintenance, remain to be fully elucidated, catheter ablation in the left atrium (LA) has become a common therapeutic option for patients with this arrhythmia. …”
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