Patients with both rheumatoid arthritis and atrial fibrillation (AF) vs AF only have a higher risk for ischemic stroke.

The WATCHMAN device is a small plug placed on the left atrial appendage that prevents blood clots from forming there and ...

Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heartbeat condition. Now that people are living longer it’s becoming more common, experts say. Dr. N. Mahbub Jamil, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Dignity Health, ...

Staff at Shasta Regional Medical Center are informing the public about atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib, including how ...

That blood clot can be pumped out of the heart to the brain which in turn cuts off the blood supply to the brain and causes a stroke. It’s estimated that around 15 to 20% of people who have strokes ...

• Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation likely improves symptoms and quality of life and may improve exercise capacity (the maximum amount of physical effort a person can tolerate) in adults with ...

Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal's maiden six-wicket for India as the hosts beat England by 75 runs in the third and final Twenty20 International ...

Community Hospital in Munster marked a major milestone in atrial fibrillation treatment. A team in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab recently completed Community Hospital's 500th WATCHMAN implant ...

One heart condition—atrial fibrillation, also known as Afib—is three times more common than researchers used to think, ...

New research suggests that atrial fibrillation (AFib), may affect thrice as many people as doctors had previously thought, ...

"Although interactions that occur when two drugs are taken at the same time are relatively common for all drugs, researchers estimate most patients with AFib who are treated with an oral anticoagulant ...