A type of irregular heartbeat is common over the festive season. Here’s what you need to know if you’ve had a few drinks.

Share on Pinterest Marc Tran/Stocksy United Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common type of arrhythmia– an abnormal heart rhythm. According to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Searches were performed on articles published between 2003 and 2024, focusing on the new ESC guidelines for 2024. The keywords used included “electrical cardioversion”, “atrial fibrillation”, ...

Clinicians will increasingly encounter heart rhythm data generated from consumer-grade devices. Consumer-grade smartphone-paired devices and smartwatches have very high sensitivity and specificity for ...

Pulsed field ablation (PFA) was shown to be effective in treating patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AFib), with more patients free from atrial ... reduced quality of life and increase in ...

fWP and fWA presented the highest predictive ability, classifying properly 82.5% of the analyzed patients with optimal thresholds of 0.053 and 0.073 n.u. 2, respectively (see Fig. 3A). SampEn also ...

When Do Doctors Use Cardioversion for AFib? Cardioversion is a common treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib). AFib is a condition when the upper chambers of the heart, called atria, beat in an ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and coronary artery disease are frequently associated and, when so, lead to a grim prognosis. Recent studies suggest the presence of interconnected pathophysiological pathways ...

During a recent episode of the podcast "SmartLess," Will Arnett said co-host Sean Hayes was admitted into hospital twice in one night.

Neither clinical parameter studied in this work, that is, age, concomitant heart disease, sustained AF duration, and LAD, showed any definite relationship to NSR maintenance (see Table II ...

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