Background A 60-year-old male with obesity (body-mass index 43 kg/m 2) presented with recurrent symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF), which he had had since age 41 years. The AF was refractory to ...

Of 95 patients receiving transthoracic shocks for atrial flutter in the emergency department, about half were treated with a defibrillator that delivered monophasic-waveform shocks and the rest were ...

Cardioversion is a procedure that returns an abnormal heart rhythm to normal. It's used when you have an arrhythmia, which means your heart is beating too fast or irregularly. Cardioversion can be ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology define atrial fibrillation (AF) as a supraventricular tachyarrhythmia characterized by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dronedarone was associated with lower incidence of permanent atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter, more return to ...

I need help. Here is a common case that causes me great consternation. It is one that brings two worthy philosophies into the ring. In one corner is the ever-virtuous minimally disruptive philosophy.

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. A randomized trial suggests that avoiding coffee after cardioversion may not help, and that modest caffeine intake may actually be associated with fewer atrial ...

Early stroke and systemic embolism rates in patients following cardioversion for atrial fibrillation (A-fib) are low and comparable between those receiving warfarin or the novel oral anticoagulant ...