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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
The most common cause of atrial fibrillation is atrial dilation associated with hypertension. Approximately 1/3 of patients have familial atrial fibrillation which is due to an underlying genetic disorder. Given the number of patients who undergo coronary artery bypass grafting in the developed world, this is an increasing underlying cause of atrial fibrillation. Other general causes include the advancing age of the population this hemodynamic stress of heart failure and valvular heart disease, myocardial ischemia, a variety of inflammatory disorders, pulmonary diseases, alcohol and drug abuse, and endocrine disorders.
Causes
Common Causes
- COPD
- Drugs
- Hypertension
- MI
- Sick sinus syndrome
- Sleep apnea
- Stress
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Valvular heart disease
Causes by Organ System
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Alcohol
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Atrial ischemia
- Atrial myxoma
- Atrial septal defect
- Bronchogenic carcinoma
- Caffeine
- Cardiac tumors
- Cardiomyopathy
- Channelopaties
- Chronic kidney disease
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Cocaine
- Collagen vascular disease
- Congenital heart disease
- Congestive heart failure
- Conivaptan
- Constrictive pericarditis
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- Coronary artery disease
- Dehydration
- Diabetes
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Electrolyte disturbance
- Endocarditis
- Familial atrial fibrillation
- Fatigue
- Heart failure
- Hemochromatosis
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia
- Hypothyroidism
- Hypoxia
- Idiopathic pericarditis
- Left ventricular hypertrophy
- Lung cancer
- Lutembacher syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Methamphetamines
- Mitral regurgitation
- Mitral stenosis
- Myocardial infarction
- Myocarditis
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Pericarditis
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pneumonia
- Porfimer sodium
- Psychological stress
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Renal insufficiency
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Sarcoidosis
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Surgery
- Tricuspid regurgitation
- Tricuspid stenosis
- Unstable angina
- Uremic pericarditis
- Valvular heart disease
- Viral infections
Lone Atrial Fibrillation
In about 10% of patients no underlying cause is identified. This condition is called lone atrial fibrillation.