Bordeaux-Pessac, France - Isolated atrial fibrillation (AF) can be a source of diastolic dysfunction, according to a prospective study of patients with both disorders whose arrhythmia was successfully ...

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Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2008;6(10):1287-1289. Another common cardiovascular condition associated with aging is atrial fibrillation (AF). This is the most commonly occuring sustained cardiac ...

Cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of mortality in patients with DMD. Compared with their healthy counterparts, patients with DMD — including those with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction ...

Age, gender, and body size can affect the size of the left atrium, but several medical conditions can also be responsible. The left atrium is one of the four chambers of the heart. It’s located in the ...

What Is Rate Control for Atrial Fibrillation? Rate control is not a cure for AFib, but a way of keeping your heart rate in check. It’s done with medications that keep your heart from beating too ...

End-diastolic volume is the amount of blood that is in the ventricles before the heart contracts. Doctors use end-diastolic volume to estimate the heart’s preload volume and to calculate stroke volume ...

Minimizing atrial pacing does not prevent atrial fibrillation in patients with sinus node dysfunction, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2023.