Untreated atrial fibrillation carries an approximately 3 to 5% annual risk of ischemic stroke. Long-term oral anticoagulation therapy decreases this risk to 1.7% with warfarin and to 1.5% with ...

A liquid injected into the heart that sets like a gel could one day prevent strokes caused by atrial fibrillation, animal tests suggest.

A study published in Nature on March 4 and led by Prof. XU Tiantian's team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Prof. PAN Xiangbin's ...

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Ronald Wharton, MD: Hello. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and I just thought I would share with ...

WASHINGTON (March 19, 2017) -- For patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common heart rhythm disorder, closing the area of the heart known as the left atrial appendage as an add-on procedure ...

Atrial fibrillation is a common heart condition characterized by a rapid, irregular heartbeat stemming from the heart's upper ...

LONDON, UK — In patients with persistent, recurrent atrial fibrillation (AF), performing electrical isolation of the left atrial appendage (LAA) as well standard catheter ablation and pulmonary-vein ...

For patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common heart rhythm disorder, closing the area of the heart known as the left atrial appendage as an add-on procedure during cardiac surgery was ...

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