London, UK, 30 August 2024: The 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation, developed in collaboration with the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), contain a ...

Cardiologists at University of Utah Health use this therapy for people with heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias), including atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation (AFib). Your heart’s electrical ...

"Providing adequate anticoagulation therapy for patients with AF undergoing cardio-version is important. With warfarin, patients will often move in and out of the therapeutic range for optimal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sinus rhythm was restored in an effective, safe and rapid manner using drug-shock or shock-only strategies among ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An updated guideline on the prevention and management of atrial fibrillation includes a new staging system to ...

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 ...

The American Heart Association (AHA), American College of Cardiology (ACC), and Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) have released an update to the 2014 Guideline for the Management of Patients with Atrial ...

Physicians should preferentially choose a non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant (NOAC) over warfarin in most patients with atrial fibrillation, according to a focused update to the 2014 US ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a kind of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia. A problem with the electrical signals that control your heart’s pumping action causes it to beat too fast in a pattern that ...

Consuming modest amounts of caffeinated coffee after cardioversion may be linked to a lower risk of recurrent atrial fibrillation, as reported by a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA. For ...