Possible Benefits of Direct Oral Anticoagulants for the Electrophysiological Substrate Properties of Atrial Fibrillation: Can these New Agents have Antiatrial Fibrillation Actions?

Higa S^1*, Chen YJ^2,3 and Chen SA⁴

¹Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing Laboratory, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Makiminato Central Hospital, Okinawa, Japan

²Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

³Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan