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and atrial flutter). Other scenarios of high AF risk include heart failure, valve disease, coronary artery disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, neuromuscular disorders, and thyroid disease. 3 AF, ...

When irregular rhythm is detected ... the whole dataset was 26.6 ms. One study subject had a diagnosis of unspecified AF with concomitant atrial flutter whose rhythm was very stable most of the time ...

Figure 2 Electrocardiogram (Lead 2 only), Showing Rapid, Irregular Atrial Tachycardia at a Rate of 175 per Minute, with Beats Probably Arising in Multiple Foci, in a Sixty-five-Year-Old Man with ...

PFO has been implicated in stroke and migraine headaches. Atrial septal defect (ASD) is an abnormal connection between the left and right atrium. ASD can lead to the mixing of oxygenated and ...

the presence of LVH leads to diastolic dysfunction and abnormal left atrial (LA) remodeling, dilatation and fibrosis. Such LA remodeling contributes to the pathogenesis of AF. Thus, what would be ...

An atrial septal aneurysm does not typically cause any symptoms. It is often only detected during routine echocardiography or evaluation of ischemic stroke. An echocardiogram often shows evidence of ...

The diagnosis of AF was based on the presence of atrial flutter or AF on ECGs from Framingham clinic visits, outside physician or hospital charts, or Holter reports adjudicated by at least two ...