"As a whole, patients' pre-procedure scores improve by over 30 points after an ablation with the Fix AFib Clinic." AFEQTAtrial Fibrillation Effect on Quality of Life "Two weeks after my heart surgery, I am back to work, directing my son in the garden, and feeling better than I have in...
Sample size:158 patients (155 had persistent or long-standing persistent AF) for which 70 patients had a reduced LVEF of <55% at baseline prior to Hybrid Convergent ablation. Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Improved after Hybrid Convergent Ablation ...
Moreover, many people cannot tolerate the side effects of long-term medication. For these reasons, several procedures have been developed to treat and prevent the recurrence of the condition to return the person to good health. They include: Ablation of the AV node with implantation of a ...
Before the development of catheter ablation, open heart surgery was done to interrupt conducting pathways in both atria. This is called the surgical maze procedure. Maze surgery is usually considered in patients who need some other type of heart surgery, such as valve repair or coronary artery by...
AFib is the most common type of treated heart arrhythmia, and it affects more than 59 million people around the world. An arrhythmia is when a heart beats irregularly or too fast or too slow. Currently, traditional ablations are conducted by heating heart tissue or freezing it. ...
The REAL AF Registry is an observational, prospective, multicenter registry that assesses real-world catheter ablation clinical outcomes, including procedural efficiency, safety, and long-term effectiveness in a broad group of patient populations with novel radiofrequency (RF) technologies...
Since the development of cryo-energy for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation, the procedure has become safer and more effective as concomitant to coronary or valve surgery. However, it is still only performed in a fraction these cases when indicated, and less often in patients undergoing ...