Just months after FDA approval, Johnson & Johnson paused the rollout of its Varipulse pulsed field ablation (PFA) platform in the U.S. due to safety reasons. In a U.S. external evaluation cohort, four ...
Looking back, Kokomo resident Mike Beatty knew he had something as a teenager, but he couldn’t put a name to it. Whenever he’d overexert himself, he’d feel “different,” but it would go away with rest.
Newly generated human embryonic stem cell‐derived atrial‐like cardiomyocytes resemble human atrial cardiomyocytes and prove to be a valuable model for pre‐clinical drug screenings to identify ...
But what he was experiencing was atrial fibrillation, or Afib for short. In Beatty’s case, his heart the day he went into the hospital had to undergo electrical cardioversion to be “shocked ...
But not everyone with atrial fibrillation is unwell, and it can sometimes affect people who are physically very fit, such as athletes. Treatment may include medication, ablation, cardioversion and ...
Sixty-three patients (20 men and 43 women, mean age 73.4 ± 9.0 years) with persistent AF lasting for more than 30 days and undergoing ECV were followed during 1 month. The median arrhythmia ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia and is associated with ... including rhythm control, ablation, warfarin, DOACs and cardioversion. General AF and stroke risk ...