Atrial fibrillation (AFib) can affect life expectancy due to factors that include age, underlying health conditions, race, and how this common cardiac arrhythmia—or abnormal heart rhythm— is treated.

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“One-stop” surgery, including combined radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO), has become a common clinical treatment for patients with AF who develop cerebral ...

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Main outcome measures Primary outcome measures were quality of shared decision making measured by OPTION12, knowledge of atrial fibrillation and its management ... as appropriate, using the same fixed ...

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Specimens of human atrial appendage were obtained from patients undergoing a range of cardiac surgical procedures with written informed consent and conformed to the principles outlined in the ...

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The right atrial appendage aneurysm was first detected on fetal echocardiogram at 28 weeks of gestation (Figure 1). There were no pregnancy complications, including no fetal arrhythmias or evidence of ...

Figure. Doppler flow velocity profiles in left atrial appendage (upper panels) and 2-dimensional images of the LAA before (A and B) and immediately after (C and D) direct-current cardioversion of ...