A day case catheter ablation procedure which includes only the bare essentials and delivers the same outcomes could slash waiting lists for atrial fibrillation patients, according to late-breaking ...

Extending Medicare reimbursement for cardiac catheter ablation to settings outside the hospital is expected to boost ...

Obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation (AFib) are two conditions that share a potentially deadly link. Having one ...

Compared with medical therapy, rhythm control with catheter ablation is associated with lower risk of ischemic stroke after 30 days, as well as less mortality and heart failure (HF) hospitalization, ...

Biomedical engineering researcher Shijie Zhou brings a computational approach to the quest for better treatments for ...

A novel catheter-based cardioneural ablation procedure reduced symptoms of vasovagal syncope by as much as 80% for patients with symptoms despite medical intervention and behavioral modification who ...

Boston Scientific faces intense competition from major players such as Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, and Abbott Laboratories.

Over the past 5 years, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has evolved from an experimental procedure to one that is performed in most large medical centers throughout the world. The rapid ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided a major reimbursement update for cardiac ablation ...

Since AF results in fibrosis of the left atrium and in turn atrial fibrosis facilitates development of persistent AF, assessment of the extent of left atrial fibrosis by MRI is currently under ...

Over the past decade, there has been an exponential increase in the number of catheter ablation procedures performed for atrial fibrillation (AF). While for paroxysmal AF, proximal pulmonary vein ...