Mayo explains that though it usually isn’t life threatening, it has the risk of leading to other complications.1 For one, it could cause blood clots to form in the heart, which in turn can move to other parts of the body, increasing the risk of stroke. It can cause heart failure ...
The prevalence of A fib increases with age, afflicting about 10% of the population by 80 years of age.3The growing prevalence of AF may be influenced by extended survival outcomes for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), valvular heart disease, and coronary artery disease as AF is ...
The presence of ischemia or infarct on stress echocardiogram was not associated with postoperative a-fib/flutter. A total of 390 patients had a history of paroxysmal a-fib/flutter and were in sinus rhythm at the time of surgery. Of these, 90 (23%) experienced recurrent a-fib/flutter within...
miR Changes in AF Main target genes and their function References miR-1 Down-regulated KCNJ2 GJA1 (connexin43) Fibullin-2 Increased IK1 Altered conduction Increased fibrosis Zhao et al., 2007; Girmatsion et al., 2009 miR-21 Up-regulated Spry1, PDCD4 Inhibition of fibroblast proliferation ...
- 《Mayo Clinic Proceedings》 被引量: 55发表: 2008年 New insights into onset mechanisms of atrial fibrillation and flutter after coronary artery bypass graft surgery Objective: To determine by means of a monitoring study the onset mechanisms of atrial fibrillation (AF) after coronary artery bypass...
Excessive QT prolongation could predispose patients to torsades de pointes (TdP), which can be fatal.MethodsWe performed a retrospective case-control study at Mayo Clinic Rochester (January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2016). "TdP risk" cases were defined as patients on dofetilide therapy for AF ...
doi:10.4022/JAFIB.894Ranjini R. RoySandeep SagarT. Jared BunchWahaj AmanDaniel J. CrusanKomandoor SrivathsanSamuel J AsirvathamWin-Kuang ShenArshad JahangirJ Atr FibrillationotherRoy RR, Sagar S, Bunch TJ, Aman W, Crusan DJ, Srivathsan K, et al. Hiatal Hernia is associated with an ...
you're having is you're having heartbeats that are going sooner or shorter—bum-bum—or longer—bum-bum-bum, bum. And what that's doing is it's altering the ability of your heart to fill and your heart to pump blood effectively," says Dr. Christopher DeSimone, a Mayo Clinic ...