If you sometimes experience a racing or irregular heartbeat, it may be caused by atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common type of heart arrhythmia. AFib can make you five times more likely to have ...

Millions of people across the United States suffer from irregular heartbeat, a condition known as atrial fibrillation, or afib. It occurs when the upper and lower chambers of the heart beat out of ...

Favorable bleeding outcomes related to abelacimab have positioned the medication as a potential game changer in the treatment of atrial fibrillation. One of the core results from AZALEA-TIMI 71 was ...

Left atrial appendage occlusion is a generally safe and effective procedure to lower the risk of stroke in people with atrial fibrillation. It closes or blocks off the left atrial appendage of the ...

In 1987, Dr. James L. Cox performed the first maze procedure for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation. 1 Previous efforts at surgical correction were not uniformly successful, and some procedures ...

A new study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery,, finds that Medicare patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who undergo surgical ablation during isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG ...

MASON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AtriCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRC), a leading innovator in surgical treatments and therapies for atrial fibrillation (Afib), left atrial appendage (LAA) management, and ...

Potassium supplementation is not needed as often as previously thought to prevent atrial fibrillation (AFib) after certain types of heart surgery. That’s the conclusion from researchers in a new study ...