A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. A randomized trial suggests that avoiding coffee after cardioversion may not help, and that modest caffeine intake may actually be associated with fewer atrial ...

Background: Several clinical factors have been studied to predict atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after electrical cardioversion (ECV) with limited predictive value. Methods: A method able to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The DECAF trial evaluated the effects of caffeinated coffee on risk for recurrent atrial fibrillation episodes ...

Electric cardioversion is far less invasive. It uses quick, low-energy electric shocks applied to the chest to revert the heart back into a regular rhythm. Chemical or pharmacological cardioversion ...

We conducted an international, open-label, randomized, blinded-outcome-assessment trial involving 1284 patients who had undergone successful catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation at least 1 year ...

In a new study of people with atrial fibrillation, those who drank at least one cup of caffeinated coffee a day had a lower risk of experiencing new episodes, compared with those who had no caffeine.

All the selected patients for the study were under antiarrhythmic drug treatment (amiodarone 200 mg/day) before the procedure and during the whole follow-up after ECV. Moreover, all of them were also ...