Using computers to make a digital replica of the heart—a digital heart twin—can successfully identify problem areas deep in ...

“Very high resting heart rate [more than 100 beats per minute] can also be a sign of illness such as atrial fibrillation,” he says. Elite athletes can sometimes have remarkably low resting ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation in the best of circumstances ... AF of approximately 4-5 months duration. He also has heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), New York Heart Association ...

Metastatic tumors to, or that are directly invasive into, the heart are far more common. Approximately 75% of primary tumors are benign and 50–75% of these are atrial myxomas. The benign tumors ...

Matt Jaeky was only 19 the first time his heart went into atrial fibrillation (AFib). He had just come home after working a long, hot day in his summer job cutting grass and changing water meters ...

If you are an emoji-using communicator, it should come as no surprise that the red heart emoji has been among the top five most-used emojis since the colored icons were invented. In fact ...

ACC's CardioSmart is holding a challenge to educate Fellows in Training (FITs) about the importance of shared decision-making. An essential component of the patient-clinician relationship, shared ...

On Mondays, they saw a spike in patients presenting to emergency departments after a weekend of binge drinking with a heart condition called atrial fibrillation, which is characterised by an ...

Cardiac ultrasound identified an enlarged left heart with an abnormal left ventricular structure ... intracardiac right-to-left shunts, and atrial myxoma. Non-cardiac right-to-left shunts, such as ...

Attempt to get rid of the atrial fibrillation altogether and restore and maintain normal heart rhythm. Allow the atrial fibrillation to persist while controlling the heart rate There are different ...

Myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumour, especially in adults. However, reports on this nosological entity in patients over the age of 80 are scarce in the medical literature.

The heart has its own nervous system that regulates its rhythm, challenging previous assumptions. This finding could lead to new heart disease treatments. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com ...