11Diseases of the circulatory system
Cardiac arrhythmia
Supraventricular rhythm disturbance
BC81Supraventricular tachyarrhythmia
BC81.3Atrial fibrillation
BC81.31
category
Persistent atrial fibrillation
Definition Atrial fibrillation (AF) which is sustained beyond seven days, or lasting less than seven days but necessitating pharmacologic or electrical cardioversion to restore normal sinus rhythm.
Also indexed as
Persistent atrial fibrillation
Nearby in Atrial fibrillation
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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