5A.01: CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND ADVERSE OUTCOME IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS WITH RECENT-ONSET ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND TROPONIN RISE.

Objective:Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac-arrhythmia in critical-care, has reached a high prevalence in hypertensive patients. Prevention of systemic-embolism is mandatory; unfortunately, evidence to support the treatment of comorbidities as coronary artery disease (CAD) that contr