Binge drinking and possibly, moderate alcohol intake, may trigger atrial fibrillation. Caffeine intake does not appear to be a trigger; although, some doctors still recommend that patients with atrial ...

AFib causes an irregular heart rate that can make your heart feel as if it is fluttering or skipping beats. Panic attacks, on ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common form of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). People with AFib have many treatment options, including medications and medical procedures. However ...

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 ...

The safety of abelacimab as compared with a direct oral anticoagulant in patients with atrial fibrillation is unknown. Patients with atrial fibrillation and a moderate-to-high risk of stroke were ...

The two patients groups, those relapsing to AF and those others resulting in NSR, had a normal and homoscedastic distribution as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Levene tests proved, respectively ...

AFib that can be reversed or corrected is usually caused by non-cardiac issues where the underlying condition (like thyroid imbalances) could be resolved. In some cases, electrical shock ...

A new study published in the journal of Nature Scientific Reports revealed that lactate levels interfere with the electrical or mechanical cardioversion in critically sick atrial fibrillation (AF) ...

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center is embracing cutting-edge technology to transform how heart conditions are treated, especially for patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib). AFib ...

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” back into its normal rhythm. Paddles were secured to ...

Figure. Doppler flow velocity profiles in left atrial appendage (upper panels) and 2-dimensional images of the LAA before (A and B) and immediately after (C and D) direct-current cardioversion of ...