A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Previously, patients with advanced atrial fibrillation (AF ...

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a type of irregular heart rhythm that causes your heart to pump less effectively than it should. You’ll get treatment to try to bring back a normal rhythm. Another ...

All the selected patients for the study were under antiarrhythmic drug treatment (amiodarone 200 mg/day) before the procedure and during the whole follow-up after ECV. Moreover, all of them were also ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — In the next two decades, up to 60 million people will get atrial fibrillation or A-fib. It doesn’t always show symptoms but people with it have a five-times increased risk of a ...

Atrial fibrillation (Afib) is the most prevalent arrhythmia, affecting nearly 10% of the elderly. Current Afib treatments are limited to medications and procedures that control heart rhythm, such as ...

A study from the Journal of the American Medical Association published Nov. 9 looked at how coffee might affect the reoccurrence of Afib after a cardioversion. Cardioversion is a medical procedure ...

It is expected that within the next 20 years that 20 million-60 million people will get atrial fibrillation, usually just called AFib. People with AFib have a five-times increased risk of stroke ...

During the 6 months after treatment to restore a normal heart rhythm, adults with atrial fibrillation (AFib) who were randomly assigned to drink coffee every day were 39% less likely to have a ...