Jonathon Frye was sitting in his driveway when all of a sudden, his heart started to race. “It felt like I was running a ...

Using catheter-based ablation instead of medications alone reduces the risks of death and stroke in patients with the common form of heart arrhythmia known as atrial fibrillation, or AFib, new ...

Radiation therapy may offer a comparable and potentially safer alternative to repeat catheter ablation for patients with ...

VIENNA, Austria—For patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), a hybrid approach that combines a minimally invasive surgical ablation with catheter-based radiofrequency ablation—performed ...

Over the past 5 years, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has evolved from an experimental procedure to one that is performed in most large medical centers throughout the world. The rapid ...

Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), a procedure now widely performed in major electrophysiology laboratories, has been studied most carefully in patients with paroxysmal AF. In this study, ...

Patients with structural heart disease are at risk for life-threatening ventricular tachycardias (VTs). Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) can terminate VT, but often at the cost of ...

Catheter ablation is a surgical procedure, performed using thin flexible wires called catheters for the treatment of atrial fibrillation or cardiac arrhythmia. . The catheters reach the heart through ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The debate on the use of catheter ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation has intensified among ...

Catheter tips came off three damaged devices during surgery but none of the patients suffered serious injuries or died.