For the roughly 6 million Americans living with atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation has become an increasingly common ...

Minimally invasive heart procedures are emerging as viable alternatives to open-heart surgery, offering new hope to patients in the Visayas, experts said during a roundtable discussion in Cebu on ...

The absolute rate is still below 0.5%, in line with prior ablation studies, but the issue warrants monitoring, a researcher ...

On January 26, Emma Hegwood, DO performed the first combined catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation and Watchman® left atrial appendage occlusion procedure, known as a concomitant procedure, ...

Kessly Salinas is a reporter at the Midland Reporter Telegram. She is from Friona, Texas and graduated from St. Edward’s University with a bachelor’s degree in global studies in May of 2023. Kessly ...

From its first use in 1998, to its status as a routine management strategy when medication is not an option, our understanding of catheter ablation for AF has grown immensely 4. Over the past 28 years ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent cardiac arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of AF and to describe its ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation who are prescribed diltiazem to control heart rate alongside anticoagulants (blood thinners) such as apixaban or rivaroxaban face a higher risk of serious bleeding ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Both doctors and patients say being extra aware of how a heart is beating could save lives. The Medical University of South Carolina’s Chief of Cardiac Electrophysiology and ...