A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...

Content by Health System. Learn the facts about atrial fibrillation, including its symptoms, risk factors and available ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. I've read that it puts me at greater risk of stroke. Can you tell me more about this? ANSWER: You may not have known you had atrial ...

Diane awoke in the middle of the night with palpitations and felt short of breath. She was familiar with these symptoms as she had previously had to deal with them. She took some medication and went ...

Seeing a loved one pass out with their eyes rolled back is a terrifying thing to experience. That minute or two you live through between dialing 911 and trying to see if that person wakes can feel ...

Another benefit of GLP-1 receptor agonist (RA) use may be protection from persistent atrial fibrillation (Afib or AF) after ablation, according to a large Veterans Affairs database. New initiators of ...

Background: Several clinical factors have been studied to predict atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after electrical cardioversion (ECV) with limited predictive value. Methods: A method able to ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - It is expected within the next 20 years that 20-60 million people will get atrial fibrillation, usually just called AFib. People with AFib have a five-times ...

All the selected patients for the study were under antiarrhythmic drug treatment (amiodarone 200 mg/day) before the procedure and during the whole follow-up after ECV. Moreover, all of them were also ...