Atrial fibrillation is a common abnormal type of heart rhythm that is considered one of the leading potential risk factors for stroke. If you have atrial fibrillation, preventative treatment can ...

Fitbit recently added atrial fibrillation (AFib) notifications and irregular heart rhythm monitoring to a select number of its devices. But what is AFib, why is it important, and how can you use ...

Atrial flutter is closely related to atrial fibrillation but is not the same thing. The atria serve primarily as reservoirs for blood between heart contractions, whereas the ventricles are responsible ...

Are you or a loved one at risk of AFib? The American Heart Association wants to help you protect your heart and health. Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is an irregular heartbeat in which the atria, the ...

In patients undergoing isolated nonemergent CABG in the SWEDEGRAFT trial, no-touch SVG harvesting did not result in less graft failure compared with conventional open harvesting at 2 years but ...

FLORENCE, S.C. — Television is littered with commercials about atrial fibrillation (AFib) and all the drugs available to treat it, but if the pills don’t work the surgical option just got much ...

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Atrial fibrillation is being diagnosed at an alarming rate, but a therapy long used in Europe is now available in the United States. The Mayo Clinic is among the first to ...

The father of three girls, aged nine, six and 16 months, was shocked to learn he had atrial fibrillation (AF or AFib). There was no known family history of the condition, yet it certainly ...