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How is atrial fibrillation treated?

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Atrial fibrillation is often treated with digitalis and other drugs that regulate heart rhythm or heart rate. Ventricular fibrillation is a sign of the terminal stage of heart failure and is usually fatal unless defibrillation is achieved by immediate direct-current defibrillation.

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