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FDA elevates Boston Scientific cryoablation correction effort following four deaths
The FDA is elevating a recall from Boston Scientific covering its cryoablation balloon catheters for the treatment of atrial ...
Ask the doctors: Understanding atrial fibrillation and its symptoms
As has happened with you, not everyone with A-fib develops symptoms. Symptoms can include a fast and irregular pulse, a fluttery sensation in the chest, general fatigue, unusual fatigue when ...
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Left atrial myocardial function in either physiological or pathological left ventricular hypertrophy: a two-dimensional speckle strain study
This study investigated whether mechanical dysfunction in the left atrium (LA) is present in patients with either ... Using multivariate analysis, LV end-diastolic volume/body surface area (BSA) (β ...
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Left Atrial Appendage Closure Reduced Bleeding After Afib Ablation
Opens in a new tab or window CHICAGO -- For patients at high risk of stroke who underwent catheter-based atrial fibrillation ablation, left atrial appendage closure led to less bleeding compared ...
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An Algorithm to Predict the Site of Origin of Focal Atrial Tachycardia
The specificity of notched P waves predicting left atrial origins was 100% ... two areas in the atria that had similar ECG patterns: Area A: High CT, superior PVs, and RAA. Area B: CS ostium ...