Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of heartbeat irregularity. It causes your heart to beat chaotically. Instead of the ...

A routine training session took an unexpected turn for a triathlon runner after his Apple Watch detected signs of atrial ...

An abnormal, often rapid heart rhythm is known as atrial fibrillation (AF), and the study showed that the risk of hospitalization for heart failure among patients who developed AF after surgery ...

The field of atrial fibrillation is evolving rapidly. Although a medical rhythm control strategy has not proven to be beneficial for survival, new interventional therapies have improved the rate of ...

A cohort study of persons with incident atrial fibrillation (AF) has found that AF after noncardiac surgery is common and comprises 13 percent of all new AF diagnoses. Postoperative AF is also ...

Share on Pinterest First cryoablation surgery performed at Zakarpattia Regional Cardiology Centre UZHHOROD, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 3, 2020 – Professor of the Gottsegen Hungarian Institute of Cardiology ...

A triathlon runner named Connor underwent open-heart surgery after an ECG reading from his Apple Watch led doctors to ...

The risk of being hospitalized for heart failure after surgery is higher in patients who develop an abnormal heart rhythm, a new, large study shows. Of more than 76,000 heart surgery patients, about ...

A simple surgical technique during cardiac surgery was associated with a 56 percent reduction in the incidence of an irregular heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation that can lead to stroke, with ...

A new study found that older patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve surgery had significantly better outcomes than those who received medical management alone, ...