[Atrial Fibrillation and Mortality: Prognostic Factors and Direction of Prevention].

This review focuses on major causes and risk factors for death of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The authors analyzed current therapeutic strategies for managing patients with AF with respect of their effects on prediction and mortality. Special attention is paid to the strategy of rhythm control and the clinical significance of catheter ablation in the treatment of patients with AF and heart failure.

[Recommendations of the Eurasian Arrhythmology Association (EURA) for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with arrhythmias and conduction disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic].

The beginning of 2020 was characterized by the development of a new coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Information about the epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical and laboratory diagnostics, as well as prevention and therapy for this disease is constantly being expanded and reviewed. The COVID-19 pandemic creates the need for the emergence of new conditions of specialized care for patients with heart rhythm and conduction disorders [1]. These recommendations are intended for general practitioners, internists, cardiologists, electrophysiologists/arrhythmologists, cardiovascular surgeons, functional diagnostics doctors, anesthesiologists-resuscitators, laboratory diagnostics specialists, health care organizers in the system of organizations and healthcare institutions that provide specialized care to patients with heart rhythm and conduction disorders.

[Use of Statins, Anticoagulants, Antiaggregants and Antiarrhythmic Drugs in Patients With COVID-19. The Agreed Experts' Position of Russian Society of Cardiology, Eurasian Association of Therapists, National Society on Atherothrombosis, Societies of Experts in Urgent Cardiology, Eurasian Arrhythmology Association].

This article discusses relevant aspects in the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Up-to-date information about principles for administration of statins, antithrombotics, and antiarrhythmics is presented. The authors addressed in detail specific features of reversing heart rhythm disorders in patients with coronavirus infection and the interaction of antiarrhythmic and antiviral drugs. Recommendations are provided for outpatient and inpatient antithrombotic therapy for patients with COVID-19. Issues of antithrombotic and antiviral drug interaction are discussed.

Update of the Diagnostic Criteria of J-Wave Syndrome: New Concepts and Their Relevance to Cardiology Practice (According to Materials of J-Wave Syndromes Expert Consensus Conference Report: Emerging Concepts and Gaps in Knowledge (2016).

This review includes main positions of the revision of diagnostic criteria of "J-wave syndromes in the J-Wave Syndromes Expert Consensus Conference Report: Emerging Concepts and Gaps in Knowledge" (2016). The article, systematized according to the sections of the above-mentioned document, outlines the questions of terminology, new criteria for diagnosis of the Brugada syndrome (BrS) and early repolarization syndrome (ERS). The section devoted to ERS on the issues of new terminology and standardization of measurements, is supplemented with material from the Consensus Paper - The Early Repolarization Pattern (2015). The article also presents the issues of differential diagnosis in BrS, presents modulating factors, defines acquired Brugada-pattern and Brugada phenocopies. The similarities and differences between BrS and ERS are presented in a comparative aspect.

[Prognostic Value of Hyperuricemia in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction].

Patients with permanent atrial fibrillation in comparison with cardiovascular patients without arrhythmia were found to have higher level of serum uric acid irrespectively of background of arterial hypertension and/or ischemic heart disease. Serum uric acid was shown to be an independent predictor of chronic heart failure exacerbation in atrial fibrillation patients.