UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Panayotis Vardas, M.D., has co-authored the article, "The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2023 clinical practice guidelines for the surgical ...

Dr. Deephak Swaminath and his team at Medical Center Hospital were the first in West Texas to use the Pulse Select PFA (pulsed field ablation) system. Pulse Select PFA is an emerging and newer, ...

If you sometimes experience a racing or irregular heartbeat, it may be caused by atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common type of heart arrhythmia. AFib can make you five times more likely to have ...

Not everyone with atrial fibrillation needs to correct it. Some people with an irregular heartbeat can go years without any treatment other than stroke prevention. "A lot of people have so-called ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -According to doctors at HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin, atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is an irregular and sometimes rapid heartbeat rhythm. This can lead to blood clots ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Atrial Fibrillation, or AFib is the leading cause of stroke. The American Heart Association says five million Americans currently have AFib, with an additional 12 million ...

It is expected that within the next 20 years that 20 million-60 million people will get atrial fibrillation, usually just called AFib. People with AFib have a five-times increased risk of stroke ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) are two of the leading medical organizations that have developed new recommendations for managing and preventing ...

One in four…that’s how common atrial fibrillation, also know as AFib is. AFib is a common cause of stroke. Those are scary numbers. But treating, even fixing AFib is getting less scary as technology ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - It is expected within the next 20 years that 20-60 million people will get atrial fibrillation, usually just called AFib. People with AFib have a five-times ...