Abrupt Cessation of Atrial Fibrillation in a Neurosurgical Patient: Does Positioning Matter?

Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been associated with cancer. However, the literature regarding the occurrence of AF in patients with brain tumors is limited. Neuroanatomic connections between the brain and the heart may affect heart rate and rhythm. We discuss a case of transient AF in a 64-year-old fe...

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Autores principales: Joys, Steve, Mahajan, Shalvi, Chauhan, Rajeev, Kumar, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33708684
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_192_20
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Chauhan, Rajeev
Kumar, Sanjay
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description Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been associated with cancer. However, the literature regarding the occurrence of AF in patients with brain tumors is limited. Neuroanatomic connections between the brain and the heart may affect heart rate and rhythm. We discuss a case of transient AF in a 64-year-old female who was operated for a right-sided sphenoid wing meningioma. The AF might have been related to the positioning of the head and neck of the patient, in whom the intracranial compliance was reduced due to the brain tumor.
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spelling pubmed-78692852021-03-10 Abrupt Cessation of Atrial Fibrillation in a Neurosurgical Patient: Does Positioning Matter? Joys, Steve Mahajan, Shalvi Chauhan, Rajeev Kumar, Sanjay Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been associated with cancer. However, the literature regarding the occurrence of AF in patients with brain tumors is limited. Neuroanatomic connections between the brain and the heart may affect heart rate and rhythm. We discuss a case of transient AF in a 64-year-old female who was operated for a right-sided sphenoid wing meningioma. The AF might have been related to the positioning of the head and neck of the patient, in whom the intracranial compliance was reduced due to the brain tumor. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7869285/ /pubmed/33708684 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_192_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_sort abrupt cessation of atrial fibrillation in a neurosurgical patient: does positioning matter?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869285/
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