Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide and prevalence is expected to continue rising at an exponential rate with an aging population and increasing rates of obesity and ...
Panel A shows a cross-section of a normal heart (top) and an endomyocardial biopsy sample from a normal heart (bottom; with hematoxylin and eosin staining) that shows normal histologic characteristics ...
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) and heart enlargement are connected. AFib can cause an enlarged heart, and heart enlargement due to other causes can lead to episodes of rapid heart rate. AFib is a rapid, ...
In patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), standard treatment with pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) ablation resulted in similar outcomes to more extensive ablation in other areas of the ...
The trial enrolled patients with cryptogenic stroke and evidence suggestive of atrial cardiopathy, but no evidence of atrial fibrillation, who were randomized to apixaban, 5 mg or 2.5 mg twice daily, ...
London, United Kingdom – 2 September 024: In patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), standard treatment with pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) ablation resulted in similar outcomes to more ...
Why BNP matters: BNP levels above 150 pg/ml, especially with left atrial enlargement, strongly predict new AFib in post-stroke patients. The stroke connection: AFib increases stroke risk fivefold, and ...
TCT 199: First-in-Human Experience with Novel Real-time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography (4D ICE) Catheter - A Virtually-Supported Clinical Study Performed During Global Pandemic Receive the the ...
Patients receiving their first kidney transplant are at 18% higher risk for newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation if they were on hemodialysis rather than peritoneal dialysis prior to transplantation, a ...