Atrial Fibrillation

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, also referred to as AF or afib. AF is a cardiac arrhythmia caused by irregular and often rapid heart rate. It is caused by the upper chambers (the atria) beating irregularly and uncoordinated with the lower  ventricle chambers of of the heart. Symptoms include weakness with heart palpitations and shortness of breath. The conditional can lead to an increased risk of stroke and heart failure. AF episodes can cause the blood in the atria to stagnate and form clots, usually within the left atrial appendage (LAA). The clots can flow to the brain and cause a stroke. Treatments include anticoagulation therapy to dissolve clots, catheter or surgical ablation and LAA occlusion

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February 20, 2015 — Medtronic announced the results of a new "real-world" study of patients who have had a cryptogenic ...

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February 12, 2015 — Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC and Medicalgorithmics have announced their participation in a ...

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February 10, 2015 — Medtronic announced the initiation of the Cryo4 Persistent AF (Cryoballoon Ablation for Early ...

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February 9, 2015 — Cleveland Clinic and AliveCor, Inc. announced the online publication of study results from Cleveland ...

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January 29, 2015 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the FlexAbility ...

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The America College of Cardiology has released its list of key late-breaking clinical trials at the ACC 2015 meeting in ...

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January 12, 2015 — Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

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January 12, 2015 — CardioFocus Inc., developer of the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System for the treatment of atrial ...

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January 12, 2015 — Medtronic Inc. announced the initiation of a randomized clinical trial in Europe to assess the ...

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December 22, 2014 — AliveCor Inc. announced the launch of its third-generation AliveCor Heart Monitor. Now users have ...

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December 19, 2014 — The American College of Cardiology’s recently released Guideline Clinical App has expanded with the ...

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December 18, 2014 — Topera, Inc. announced that its RhythmView 3-D Mapping System received the Most Innovative New ...

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December 8, 2014 — Researchers at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation have found that when care teams started ...

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