Precardioversion monitoring with smartphone photoplethysmography reduces same-day cardioversion cancellations for patients with AF.
Endurance athletes may be at increased risk for lone atrial fibrillation. 1–5 We describe a middle-aged physician athlete with paroxysmal lone atrial fibrillation in whom cardioversion consistently ...
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 ...
Introduction: There is insufficient evidence on the efficacy and safety of pharmacological cardioversion of recent‑onset atrial fibrillation (AF) in elderly patients. Antazoline has been shown to be ...
September 22, 2003 — Further investigation aimed at improving efficacy and safety of anticoagulant treatment prior to direct current cardioversion (DCC) for restoration of atrial fibrillation (AF) is ...
Aside from patient factors, a number of factors may influence the immediate success of cardioversion, that is, a complete failure to cardiovert. These include electrode placement, shock polarity, ...
1 Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom Atrial fibrillation (AF), the ...
However, several factors confound the role of inflammation in generation and perpetuation of AF. As an example, failure to show a correlation between baseline hsCRP levels and maintenance of sinus ...
A St. Louis, Missouri medical device company is raising money in preparation for clinical trials of its pain-free cardioversion therapy for atrial fibrillation, developed by a former Case Western ...
This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) involves abnormal electrical activity in the upper chambers (atria) of your heart, which causes the organ to beat quickly and irregularly. This abnormal beating ...
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