These AFib stages include: Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: Episodes of arrhythmia that are relatively short, up to seven days. Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: More frequent episodes that last for ...

Heart rate control is a key way to manage atrial fibrillation. Doctors consider it one of the four pillars of AFib care. One way to control AFib is to take rhythm control medication, which helps ...

AFib causes your heart to beat abnormally, which is a type of arrhythmia, but there are treatments that can help. Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a problem with your heart's electrical activity.

Frequently a precursor to stroke or heart failure, a heart condition known as atrial fibrillation, goes undetected until it has progressed to an advanced stage. But atrial fibrillation ...

Two studies led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Mass General Brigham have greatly expanded the ...

US and European guidelines for atrial fibrillation differ in subtle but important ways that are swaying treatment decisions.

Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage should cover most atrial fibrillation (A-fib) costs. However, out-of-pocket amounts may differ. A-fib is an irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia. It occurs ...

Atrial fibrillation (Afib) is a type of cardiac arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm, that is very common — and more prevalent than previously thought. A large study published in October 2024 in ...

Just as in atrial fibrillation, not all of the P waves are able to conduct through the atrioventricular node, and thus the ventricular rate will not be as fast as the atrial rate. Typically ...

Enloe Health has begun the use of a new heart procedure that can help change the lives of atrial fibrillation patients ...