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Catheter Ablation vs Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Archives of Internal MedicineMD; Mark E. Josephson, MD Background Circumferential pulmonary vein ablation (CPVA) has become common therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF),

Circulation Publishes Data Showing KYNAPID(TM) (Vernakalant ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Canada NewsWire (press release),About Atrial Fibrillation AF is an interruption of the normal sinus rhythm (arrhythmia) of the heart in which the atria, the two uppermost chambers of the

AtriCure's Coolrail Linear Ablation Pen Receives FDA 510(k)  -  25 Mar 2008
Medical Design Online,The release of these new products substantially strengthens our business and positions AtriCure to pursue atrial fibrillation indications from the FDA for

Several methods for enhancing the functioning of defibrillators in ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Genetic Engineering News (press release),In more than 40% of heart attacks patients can have two types of cardiac arrhythmias: ventricular or tachycardial ventricular fibrillation without pulse.

Get a Handle on Stress  -  25 Mar 2008
HealthNewsDigest.com,The HEART Program for Health and Longevity and the CEO of the American Foundation for Women's Health and the Atrial Fibrillation Patient Resource, www.

Response to CO Alarms: Time For Another Detector?  -  25 Mar 2008
FireRescue1,...dizziness, altered mental status, weakness progressing to collapse, hypotension, and ultimately death resulting from ventricular fibrillation.

Craig M. Pratt, MD, Joins NewCardioâ€™s Scientific Advisory Board  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),Antiarrhythmic Drugs Versus Defibrillators (AVID) and the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) trials.

Cardiome announces heartening results from atrial fibrillation drug  -  Mar 17, 2008
The Canadian Press,...reported positive interim results from a Phase 2b clinical study of vernakalant, its oral drug for atrial fibrillation, or abnormal heart rhythm.

Electrophysiology Procedures for Atrial Fibrillation Treatment to ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
Biloxi Sun Herald,By Millennium Research Group According to Millennium Research Group's Global Markets for Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Treatment Devices 2008 report,

Capturing atrial fibrillation surgery data from across Europe  -  Mar 17, 2008
Hospital Healthcare Europe,A professional body has joined up with a healthcare IT company to launch the International Atrial Fibrillation Registry (IAFR), designed to garner data on

ORLive Presents: Hybrid Maze Minimally Invasive Approach to Treat ...  -  Mar 14, 2008
Market Wire (press release)Stage I can be up to 90 percent effective for certain types of atrial fibrillation. Patients with other types of atrial fibrillation may require Stage II.

New Device May Prevent Strokes In Those With Atrial Fibrillation  -  Mar 14, 2008
Tampa Tribune,Further testing revealed a condition known as atrial fibrillation, or AFIB. In some people, AFIB can cause fainting, dizziness, fatigue, breathlessness,

CryoCor Atrial Fibrillation Study Published in the Journal of the ...  -  Mar 10, 2008
CNNMoney.com (press release)The study concluded that, using the Cryoablation System, pulmonary vein isolation benefited 82% of patients with recent onset paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Cardiome Is Heart Healthy  -  Mar 17, 2008
Forbes,Altrial fibrillation is a disease that affects about 2.2 million Americans, according to the American Heart Association. The disease causes irregular heart

New Tool Helps Atrial Fibrillation Patients  -  Mar 7, 2008
WFtv.com,Doctors diagnosed Tom with atrial fibrillation. It's a condition that occurs when the heart's electrical pulses "short-circuit," causing changes to the

Hot Stock: Cardiome Pharma rises 30% on positive clinicall result  -  Mar 17, 2008
National Post,Vernakalant (oral) is being investigated as a chronic-use oral drug for the maintenance of normal heart rhythm following termination of atrial fibrillation.

What is atrial fibrillation - the heart condition affecting Waddell?  -  Mar 4, 2008
TV3 News,When Waddellâ€™s heart went into atrial fibrillation the booster chambers stopped working - it was like a six cylinder engine running on four.

Avera Medical Minute:Treating Atrial Fibrillation  -  Feb 29, 2008
KSFY,By Nancy Naeve Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common causes of irregular heart rhythms. It's also a major cause of stroke.

REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Reality EP: Epicardial Ablation for ...  -  Feb 26, 2008
Market Wire (press release)The Epicardial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation live webcast will feature a panel discussion of a minimally invasive pulmonary vein isolation and partial

AtriCure wins FDA clearance for Coolrail device  -  Mar 18, 2008
Bizjournals.com,The device, in conjunction with the company's ORLab system, can be used to surgically treat atrial fibrillation, a cardiac arrhythmia affecting the upper

Limited pulmonary vein ablation effective against atrial fibrillation  -  Mar 3, 2008
Medicexchange,A limited ablation approach does as well as empiric isolation of all pulmonary veins in achieving sustained control of atrial fibrillation (AF),

NICE right to sideline digoxin for atrial fibrillation  -  Feb 29, 2008
Pulse,By Emma Wilkinson Digoxin substantially increases the risk of death in patients with atrial fibrillation, and NICE was right when it controversially

Conway surgeon becomes first in state to use new technology  -  Mar 19, 2008
Log Cabin Democrat,She learned she had a blockage as well as an arrhythmia called atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the upper chamber of the heart beats abnormally and

Avera Medical Minute:Treating Atrial Fibrillation Live 02/28/08  -  Feb 29, 2008
KSFY,By Video KSFY Two and a half million Americans are diagnosed with an abnormal condition called Atrial Fibrillation. Cardiologist Dr. Riyad Mohama with the

Watchman guards the heart  -  Mar 11, 2008
Chicago Tribune,Atrial fibrillation patients are at much higher risk for stroke because the upper chambers of the heart quiver rather than beat regularly and forcefully,

John Warner hospitalized for atrial fibrillation  -  Feb 26, 2008
WAVY-TV,One source said he experienced artial fibrillation last night and checked himself into the hospital where he remained overnight.

Cardiome shrs up premarket; positive interim Phase IIb for oral ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
CNNMoney.comMedian time to recurrence of atrial fibrillation was greater than 90 days for the 500-milligram vernakalant group, compared with 39 days for the placebo

Medicare Expands Coverage For Home Blood Testing Of Prothrombin ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),..."Those Medicare beneficiaries and their physicians managing conditions related to chronic atrial fibrillation or venous thromboembolism will benefit greatly

ATS Medical Announces Record Quarterly and Full Year Revenue  -  Feb 26, 2008
FOXBusinessWe are particularly pleased by the increased revenue contribution of our new product lines designed to treat atrial fibrillation and heart valve repair

Cardiome Announces Positive Interim Phase 2b Results for Oral ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
PharmaLive.com (press release),The safety data from the interim analysis also suggests that vernakalant (oral) was well-tolerated in the atrial fibrillation population studied during the

Cardiome Generates Buzz with Phase II Data, Deal Speculation  -  Mar 17, 2008
BioWorld Online,Cardiome has completed enrollment in the 735-patient study, in which those subjects, all of whom are at risk of recurrent atrial fibrillation,

TIP SHEET  -  Mar 18, 2008
Globe and Mail,The biotechnology company announced upbeat results for its atrial fibrillation drug, Vernakalant, during Phase IIb trials. Investors, smelling a winner,

Timing is Everything When it Comes to Defibrillation  -  Mar 24, 2008
Nurse.com,A New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study found that 53% of people who had ventricular fibrillation in casinos that had AEDs and nonmedical staff

Capturing Data And Reporting In Patient Outcomes Following ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), together with Dendrite Clinical Systems, have launched the International Atrial Fibrillation

Rob Waddell's heart condition - it's all to do with rhythm  -  Mar 5, 2008
New Zealand Herald,The 33-year-old's heart condition, called atrial fibrillation, re-appeared during the third and final row-off with Mahe Drysdale at Lake Karapiro,

ArcelorMittal Reduces Offer Price For ArcelorMittal Inox Brasil ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
RTT News,Atrial fibrillation occurs when the atrial chambers of the heart goes into fibrillation, meaning that it sort of â€œfluttersâ€? but does not completely contract

Waddell's career far from sunk  -  Mar 5, 2008
Stuff.co.nz,Professor Norman Sharpe, the Heart Foundation's medical director, said atrial fibrillation was "more of a nuisance than a danger" to a fit, young person

The Promise and Peril of Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs)  -  Mar 12, 2008
Best Syndication,This is fibrillation. If the brain does not receive enough oxygen for several minutes, it becomes damaged. Then it may cease to direct the heart to beat.

Doctors say Mark DeRosa's heart condition treatable  -  Feb 26, 2008
Chicago Tribune,Other patients experience an irregular beat called atrial fibrillation, though some of DeRosa's symptoms suggest he has an increased atrial rate rather than

Hadlee's heart goes out to Waddell  -  Mar 5, 2008
Stuff.co.nz,After the race Waddell revealed he had been living with atrium fibrillation since 1995. Although it had not affected him for about three years,

Statin Therapy Cuts Irregular Heartbeat  -  Feb 26, 2008
HeartZine,Atrial fibrillation â€“ irregular heartbeat in general terms â€“ is a condition in which the upper two chambers of the heart quiver instead of beating in a

Cardima Announces Appointment of Dr. Abraham G. Kocheril to ...  -  Mar 4, 2008
CNNMoney.comCardima's up-coming clinical studies to support FDA approval to market the EP ablation catheter system for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation ("AF").

Scientists Demonstrate Deadly WiFi Pacemaker Hack  -  Mar 12, 2008
Wired News...attacker to turn off the pacemaker completely or deliver a shock to the heart which would cause ventricular fibrillation and thereby a cardiac arrest.

Eisai Announces Vasolan(R) (Ischaemic Heart Disease Treatment ...  -  Mar 4, 2008
Japan Corporate News (press release),Atrial fibrillation is the most common tachyarrhythmia. Its risk increases with age, and medical need to treat atrial fibrillation becomes more critical in

Nfld. researchers find gene behind sudden and deadly heart condition  -  Feb 28, 2008
The Canadian PressAs part of Young's research, defibrillators were implanted in adult carriers, and upon development of ventricular fibrillation - the event causing sudden

CryoCor Reports 2007 Results  -  Mar 20, 2008
Earthtimes,The Cryoablation System has been approved in Europe for the treatment of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter, the two most common and difficult to treat

On the Pulse - 14th March  -  Mar 14, 2008
OnMedica,A paper in the BMJ counteracts recent suggestions that bisphosphonates may increase the risk of atrial fibrillation. Their population-based approach matched

Eisenhower Heart Surgeon Trains Top Physicians in India  -  Feb 27, 2008
The Desert Sun,In western countries, atrial fibrillation in itself is not considered a life-threatening condition and typically presents in an older population.

St Vincentâ€™s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4  -  Feb 26, 2008
Irish Medical Journal,The numbers of patients with established or new onset atrial fibrillation was also examined. Data was analysed with SPSS version 11 statistical software.

Sen. Warner Hospitalized  -  Feb 26, 2008
The Associated PressWarner, 81, has suffered atrial fibrillation, which can cause an irregular heartbeat, since last fall, his office said. On Monday, he "consulted with the

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