Women often get diagnosed later, when they already show more severe symptoms. These include scarring, atrial dilation, and worse long-term outcomes. It’s not that women are less likely to ...

which include both the promotion of atrial fibrillation probably by causing left atrial dilation and the reduction of left ventricular function.

Keeping your heart healthy not only protects you from a multitude of issues such as high blood pressure, heart disease and ...

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effectiveness of atrial septostomy by percutaneous balloon dilatation in patients with congenital heart defects or primary pulmonary hypertension. PATIENTS AND DESIGN: Twenty ...

Background Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) arises from left atrial (LA) dilation, commonly associated with atrial fibrillation, and leads to progressive cardiac damage. This study ...

Atrial ectopic beats, inflammatory changes, changes in electrolytes, atrial enlargement with dilatation and fibrosis and increased vagal tone and bradycardia, among others, have been proposed as ...

LV indicates left ventricular; LVEDP, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure; RAP, right atrial pressure; RV, right ventricle; and RVEDD, right ventricular end-diastolic dimension. In the presence of ...

A 46-year-old woman with type 1 myotonic dystrophy (DM1) presented to the emergency department with dyspnea and palpitations.

Czech researchers conducted a prospective randomized controlled trial involving 127 patients (mean age, 62.9 years; 35.1% women) with an indication for catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation ...