Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of heartbeat irregularity. It causes your heart to beat chaotically. Instead of the ...

A cohort study of persons with incident atrial fibrillation (AF) has found that AF after noncardiac surgery is common and comprises 13 percent of all new AF diagnoses. Postoperative AF is also ...

An abnormal, often rapid heart rhythm is known as atrial fibrillation (AF), and the study showed that the risk of hospitalization for heart failure among patients who developed AF after surgery ...

The field of atrial fibrillation is evolving rapidly. Although a medical rhythm control strategy has not proven to be beneficial for survival, new interventional therapies have improved the rate of ...

The risk of being hospitalized for heart failure after surgery is higher in patients who develop an abnormal heart rhythm, a new, large study shows. Of more than 76,000 heart surgery patients, about ...

A simple surgical technique during cardiac surgery was associated with a 56 percent reduction in the incidence of an irregular heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation that can lead to stroke, with ...

A potentially dangerous change in heart rhythm is common after surgeries that don't involve the heart, according to Mayo Clinic researchers. Dr. Konstantinos Siontis and colleagues studied patients ...

A simple surgical technique during cardiac surgery was associated with a 56 percent reduction in the incidence of an irregular heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation that can lead to stroke, with ...

A new study found that older patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve surgery had significantly better outcomes than those who received medical management alone, ...

Each year in the US, more than 300,000 people have heart surgery. To reduce risk of stroke for their patients, surgeons often will close the left atrial appendage, which is a small sac in the left ...

Every other year, about 1,600 cardiac electrophysiologists from around the world tune into an operating room at St. David's ...