Atrial remodeling has been observed in many cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, 1 myocardial infarction 2 and heart failure. 3 Recent studies 4, 5 have shown that metabolic syndrome can ...

This issue of The American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology contains a symposium on atrial fibrillation (AF) edited by A. John Camm, featuring sophisticated reviews on several important issues ...

A research group led by Assistant Professor Megumi Aimoto and Professor Akira Takahara at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, revealed that pyrazole-3 (Pyr3), a selective ...

MANY common arrhythmias observed in both atria and ventricles are similar although the atrial types have a few important distinguishing features. Thus, so far as therapy is concerned, the atrial ...

The upper tracking rate should be set to higher values than the default 120 beats per minute (bpm) (e.g., to 140-150 bpm), in order to ensure biventricular pacing during rapid heart rates, such as ...

ECG aberrancy means the heartbeat does not follow the usual conduction system of the heart. Atrial fibrillation with ECG aberrancy means people have an irregular heart rhythm with abnormal conduction.

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AF) is the most common sustained dysrhythmia in adults. It is ironic, then, that although mechanisms and effective treatments for most other supraventricular tachyarrhythmias have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator implantation conferred improved outcomes vs. implantable ...