The surgery successfully removed the benign right atrial mass, diagnosed as a myxoma – a common primary coronary tumor, and repaired the valve. The quick action and precise surgical intervention ...

Harbaugh has what's called an atrial flutter, which is a type of arrhythmia that causes the heart to beat at an abnormally high rate. The coach departed the Chargers' Week 6 game against the ...

A percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram (per-kew-tay-nee-us trans-hep-attic col-an-jee-o-gram) is a way of looking at your bile ducts using x-rays. This test is also called a PTC. You may have a ...

The indications for PPM implantation were high-degree AV block in 55% of the cases and bradycardia in 45%, of which the majority (25% of the study cohort) were due to atrial fibrillation with slow ...

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.

He had a history of atrial fibrillation (AF) that initially occurred 2 years before in the context of streptococcal pharyngitis. Subsequently, he experienced recurrent symptomatic AF with episodes ...

The syndrome emerged insidiously 16 years after an extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) for a complex of congenital cardiovascular malformations and was successfully treated with ...

stamhealth.org Objective Echocardiography-guided Percutaneous IntraMyocardial Septal Radiofrequency Ablation (PIMSRA, Liwen procedure) is a novel treatment option for hypertrophic obstructive ...

If you have a heart condition, you can fly safely as a passenger on an airplane, but you need to be aware of your risks and take necessary precautions. Heart conditions that can lead to health ...