atrial fibrillation
abnormal heart rhythm characterized by rapid and irregular beating
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Summary
atrial fibrillation is a rare disease[1]. It ranks in the top 0.48% of rare disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,661 views/month, #3 of 627).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: class of disease[3], symptom or sign[4]
- Subclass of: heart conduction disease[5], cardiac fibrillation[6], abnormal heart rhythm[7]
- Commons category: Atrial fibrillation[8]
- ICPC 2 ID: K78[9]
- Symptoms and signs: palpitation[10]
- ICD-9-CM: 427.31[11]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C50466[12]
- Name in kana: しんぼうさいどう[13]
- Health specialty: cardiology[14]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: (RS)-metoprolol[15], rac-warfarin[16], disopyramide[17], dofetilide[18], diltiazem[19], procainamide[20], ibutilide[21], digoxin[22], deslanoside[23], quinidine[24], digitoxin[25], atenolol[26], sotalol[27], (RS)-propafenone[28]
- Genetic association: SCN4B[29], SCN3B[30], NUP155[31], KCNH2[32], HCN4[33], SCN5A[34], SCN10A[35]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0060224[36], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0060224[37], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0005110[38], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000226[39]
Why It Matters
atrial fibrillation has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]