This devicehelps prevent your heart from beating too slowly. If you take medicine to lower your heart rate, you may need one as a backup. You'll have minor surgery to put it under your skin. It runs on batteries and sends little electrical bursts to your heart when it beats too slowly...
A dangerous heart rate with atrial fibrillation depends on several things, including your overall health and other medical conditions. In general, a heart rate that is routinely above 100 beats per minute (bpm) or below 60 bpm can be considered dangerous. You may also need treatments to lower ...
Atrial fibrillation may occur without evidence of underlyingheart disease. This is more common in younger people, about half of whom have no other heart problems. This is often called lone atrial fibrillation. Some of the causes that do not involve the heart include the following: Thyroid (over...
atrial fibrillation- fibrillation of the muscles of the atria of the heart arrhythmia,cardiac arrhythmia- an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart fibrillation- muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination ...
Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take:medicine for high blood pressure, chest pain, or other heart conditions;statin medicine to lower blood cholesterol;medicine for tuberculosis (TB);medicine for seizures;digoxin; warfarin or other blood thinner medicines;medicine for organ transplant;...
Recent heart or lung surgery Abnormal heart structure from the time of birth (congenital) About 1 in 10,000 young adults in otherwise good health have the disease without any apparent cause or underlying cardiac problems. Atrial fibrillation of the heart in these individuals usually is intermittent...
AFib alone raises stroke risk. Put that together with high blood pressure (the most common cause of stroke), or diabetes (people with diabetes are four times more likely to have a stroke than those without) and you increase your chance of stroke even more. If you have AFib, keep your di...
AFib alone raises stroke risk. Put that together with high blood pressure (the most common cause of stroke), or diabetes (people with diabetes are four times more likely to have a stroke than those without) and you increase your chance of stroke even more. If you have AFib, keep your di...
“I felt good until I got super lightheaded. I checked my watch and saw my heart rate was just sky high, so I stopped and started walking,” he said. “When I got back to my truck, I sat down and tried out the ECG app. Sure enough, the result indicated the presence of AFib. ...
" posited ESC study discussant Elena Arbelo, MD, PhD, of the University of Barcelona. "I think the guidelines nowadays just recommend asking for ECG documentation of the arrhythmias. I think this will need to stay this way, and we must be careful indicating anticoagulation without ECG ...