Background Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an underdiagnosed, progressive and lethal disease. Machine learning applied to common ...

and left atrial (LA) size and function using three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) among healthy Han Chinese adults. This ...

In the U.S., atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat in the upper chambers of the heart, affects up to one in three people in their lifetime. Significant ...

Medicare covers the surgery for the Watchman procedure, which helps those with atrial fibrillation (AFib). Learn more.

AF = atrial fibrillation ... ICD = implantable cardioverter defibrillator; LA = left atrium (diameter); MVP = managed ventricular pacing (mode switching between AAI/R and DDD/R); MR = mortality ...

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 ...

The presence of left ventricule hypertrophy (LVH) due to arterial hypertension may impair atrial function. However ... Elite athletes showed increased LV end-diastolic diameter, end-diastolic volume ...

Oussama Wazni, MD, Cleveland Clinic, discusses insights from the OPTION trial and their potential implication on guidelines ...

All 17 athletes with LVH had an appropriate (≥45 mm) LV chamber dimension (mean 56±4 mm, (range 49–63)), normal systolic and diastolic function, an enlarged left atrial diameter and no systolic ...

Background: Several clinical factors have been studied to predict atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after electrical cardioversion (ECV) with limited predictive value. Methods: A method able to ...