There is an indisputable trend toward minimally invasive, outpatient procedures in healthcare. Outpatient procedures help to alleviate burdens on the healthcare system, save patients time, money, and ...

When an artery becomes blocked in a heart attack, the process of restoring healthy blood flow to the heart is called reperfusion. It usually involves a combination of medications to break down a blood ...

Augusta Health now offers the Abbott Volt Pulsed Field Ablation System as a safer option for treating AFib patients.

For the roughly 6 million Americans living with atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation has become an increasingly common treatment, but the procedure still typically keeps patients sedated on a table ...

Millions of people around the world live with cardiac arrhythmias. Only in Spain, it is estimated that more than one million citizens suffer from them. Detecting and treating them accurately continues ...

A study sets the foundation of a ground-breaking treatment regimen for treating ventricular arrhythmia. The research, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates the design and feasibility of a ...

Variants in a gene that plays a key role in heart function can cause potentially life-threatening arrhythmia syndromes known as calmodulinopathy. Calmodulinopathy is rare and causes arrhythmias that ...

An arrhythmia is a problem with your heartbeat’s rhythm and/or rate. Some arrhythmias are nothing to worry about, others should be monitored, and some need to be addressed immediately. The heart has ...

Arrhythmia puts you at greater risk of potentially life threatening complications affecting your heart, brain, and lungs. An arrhythmia is an abnormal heartbeat that beats too fast, slow, or ...

Cases of atrial arrhythmia in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are common but lack a standard solution, and more long-term data on the management of arrhythmias in DMD are needed.

A healthy fetal heart rate ranges between 110 and 160 beats per minute. A heart rate that is faster or slower than this may indicate that there is an issue that needs further attention. An arrhythmia, ...