Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are the first in Illinois to offer a new treatment for atrial fibrillation, a heart condition that often strikes firefighters. When Jeffrey Taylor first ...

A German cohort study relied on continuous long-term monitoring to show the natural history of new-onset Afib after bypass surgery. While the incidence of postoperative Afib was higher than previously ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications. New consumer patient research from the Dallas-based American Heart Association found ...

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the University of Vermont have developed a more precise way to assess stroke risk in people with atrial fibrillation (A-Fib), a condition that affects ...

If you have a racing or irregular heartbeat, also known as an arrhythmia, one likely suspect is atrial fibrillation (AFib). “Of all the possible heart rhythm disorders, atrial fibrillation is by far ...

Atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib, is an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia that happens when the upper chambers of the heart (the atria) are out of sync with the lower chambers and beating ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Corewell Health is the first hospital system in Michigan to introduce a safer, more efficient treatment for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation. Dr. Brian Williamson ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — September is Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month, which is fitting for the Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center. Around 1-in-4 U.S. adults over 40 years old are ...

A newly published study in prestigious electrophysiology journal, HeartRhythm, reveals same-day discharge after catheter pulsed-field ablation (PFA) for atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients may improve ...

Experts discuss the multifaceted management of atrial fibrillation, stressing the importance of addressing comorbid conditions alongside the arrhythmia itself, while highlighting the challenges of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Atrial Fibrillation, or AFib is the leading cause of stroke. The American Heart Association says five million Americans currently have AFib, with an additional 12 million ...