But some heart rhythms—including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia—can signal a greatly increased risk of stroke, heart failure, and death, McElderry says. At the Heart and Vascular ...

Ablation, a procedure to treat abnormal electrical short circuits caused by a heart attack and is usually reserved for ...

I meet up with friends a few days a week to go running. One of them always skips the cooldown and hops right into his car to ...

A. Irregular heart rhythms generally occur due to generation of uncontrolled electrical activity from unusual location resulting in disruptions of the heart’s normal electrical signalling e.g. atrial ...

Introduction Atrial fibrillation (AF)-induced cardiomyopathy (AIC) is retrospectively defined after normalisation of left ...

Discover the breakthrough in arrhythmia management: catheter ablation proves to be superior to drug therapy for ventricular ...

A study found that undergoing a cardiac ablation procedure first—before taking any antiarrhythmic therapies—may be the better ...

At least three deer hunters in Michigan have died from heart attacks this hunting season, according to local reports. A ...

The episodes, called ventricular tachycardia, result from scar tissue left ... a catheter ablation to directly treat the ...