Atrial fibrillation (AFib) can affect life expectancy due to factors that include age, underlying health conditions, race, and how this common cardiac arrhythmia—or abnormal heart rhythm— is treated.

The cardiac anatomy of patients with dextrocardia differs from that ... particularly when dealing with complex atrial septal anatomies (e.g., thickened interatrial septum and ASA). The VIZIGO ...

The left atrium was explored, and the mitral valve was found to be normal and the atrial septum to have no defect or patent foramen ovale. At present he is doing well. There is a Grade 2/6 ...

Main outcome measures Primary outcome measures were quality of shared decision making measured by OPTION12, knowledge of atrial fibrillation and its management, and decisional conflict. Results 1117 ...

Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Robotics, School of Mechanical and Electric Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215137, China ...

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Medically reviewed by Richard N. Fogoros, MD The right atrium is one of the heart's upper chambers that plays a role in blood ...

Because myectomy may result in a decrease in left atrial size, the likelihood of ... procedure in whom proximal ventricular septal anatomy and septal perforator distribution and size are ...

Binge drinking and possibly, moderate alcohol intake, may trigger atrial fibrillation. Caffeine intake does not appear to be a trigger; although, some doctors still recommend that patients with atrial ...