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 ...

"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 ...

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Cardiovascular conditions like coronary artery disease, congenital heart disorders, and abnormal heartbeats can cause you to ...

A collaboration of doctors from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, looked ...

While atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter cause different changes in your heart rate and rhythm, both conditions can ...

Medically reviewed by Angela Ryan Lee, MDMedically reviewed by Angela Ryan Lee, MD Atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation (AFib) are heart rhythm conditions that occur when the upper chambers of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A heart arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat, which means it can be too quick, slow, or beat with an abnormal rhythm.