Under a canopy of eight heart-monitoring screens in a cardiac catheterization lab on a recent Monday, Mayo Clinic doctors ...

Athletes who undergo ablation to treat their irregular heartbeat caused by atrial fibrillation (AF) experience greater ...

Antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) are often used after ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF); the drugs employed vary, but most common are the drugs that were unsuccessful prior to ablation since it ...

AFib-treating cardiac ablation, surgical robotics, nitinol and diabetes treatment tech lead among this year’s top medtech ...

Oral anticoagulation is recommended after ablation for atrial fibrillation among patients at high risk for stroke. Left atrial appendage closure is a mechanical alternative to anticoagulation ...

Oussama Wazni, MD, Cleveland Clinic, discusses insights from the OPTION trial and their potential implication on guidelines ...

For patients with atrial fibrillation who need protection from stroke and other complications after ablation, left atrial ...

AFib is a condition when the upper chambers ... or try something else, such as catheter ablation. How many times can you have cardioversion? Some patients have a dozen or more cardioversions.

Ablation plus LAAC resulted in better safety outcomes than ablation plus OAC in patients with AF who underwent ablation and had an increased risk for stroke.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) -UnityPoint Health is proud to announce a new treatment option for patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib). Electrophysiologists at UnityPoint Health are some of the ...

As the prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) continues to rise, BTL has announced the successful treatment of the first six patients in the first-in-human feasibility study using a next-generation ...

Opens in a new tab or window CHICAGO -- For patients at high risk of stroke who underwent catheter-based atrial fibrillation ablation, left atrial appendage closure led to less bleeding compared ...