Recurrence of atrial fibrillation following non-cardiac surgery or acute illness: A common but rarely detected complication

• Cristian Barrios Espinosa,
• Martin E.W. Hemels,
• Dobromir Dobrev,
• Jordi Heijman

Affiliations

Cristian Barrios Espinosa

Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Martin E.W. Hemels

Department of Cardiology, Rijnstate, Arnhem, the Netherlands; Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Dobromir Dobrev

Institute of Pharmacology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Jordi Heijman

Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Corresponding author at: Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands.