For many years, Jim Kaveney was one of those people, yet it’s a condition he was diagnosed with when he was 38. A former ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In Friday’s Health headlines, February is heart month, and we’re talking about AFib, portable EKG devices, and how stress this season can be hard on the heart.

In none of the patients intermittent 2:1 retrograde conduction was noted during ventricular pacing. When 1:1 retrograde atrial activation was present in the simultaneously recorded ECG and atrial ...

We can predict the risk for a postoperative pacemaker implant based on evidence from Koplan, et al., who developed a simple risk score, namely, age >70 years, atrial fibrillation (AFib), prolonged PR, ...

Mitchell did mention that current data on some at-home ECG devices indicates a high likelihood of false positive results, which can lead to unnecessary medical appointments and patient anxiety. That ...

Background: The sinoatrial/sinus node (SAN) is the primary pacemaker of the heart. In humans, SAN is surrounded by the paranodal area (PNA). Although the PNA function remains debated, it is thought to ...

The A-HIRATE Trial was a multicenter, prospective study assessing the incidence of atrial high rate episodes (AHRE) in pacemaker patients with and without previously diagnosed AT. The trial was ...

We excluded studies using implantable loop recorders and pacemakers. Using a random-effects model we calculated ... First systematic review comparing single-lead ECG monitoring with 24 hours Holter ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation in the best of circumstances has modest success ... Yet now CRT can be accomplished with single lead conduction system pacing. This is an under-used highly beneficial ...

Surface ECG and intracardiac bipolar electrograms were simultaneously recorded by the electrophysiological ... An acute successful ablation of PACs was defined as the disappearance of PACs for at ...