Benefits of withdrawing drugs in atrial fibrillation

13/09/2025 10 min
Benefits of withdrawing drugs in atrial fibrillation

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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in people over the age of 75 and can lead to heart failure. There are therapies that can pull people out of heart failure, but once their AF is resolved do they need to stay on these medications?A new study has looked at what happens when some patients are taken off drugs and closely monitored. Guest/sAssociate Professor Sandeep Prabhu, cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Alfred Hospital and researcher at the Baker Heart and Diabetes InstituteReferencesWithdrawal of heart failure therapy after atrial fibrillation rhythm control with ejection fraction normalization: the WITHDRAW-AF trial