Medications are the first-line treatment for atrial fibrillation, or A-fib. When they begin to fail, one option is ablation.

The heart is at the center of a complex electrical system. Just like any machine, sometimes the system does not always work correctly. There may be a short circuit. This could lead to an abnormal or ...

Pulsed field ablation (PFA) has been embraced as a catheter ablation modality with potential to be safer for atrial ...

If medications and lifestyle changes are still not improving your atrial fibrillation symptoms, it may be time to consider a surgical option. Cardiovascular surgeon Jared Bunch, MD, discusses cardiac ...

LA Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh is having a cardiac ablation during the offseason. It's a procedure to treat an irregular heart rhythm. The procedure involves creating tiny scars in the heart that then ...

Other hot topics included new data on LAAO and conduction-system pacing, plus the go-ahead for ablation in ASCs.

NFL players, coaches and staff put their bodies on the line every season. They sacrifice health, time, energy and more for a chance to win a Super Bowl. When that season eventually comes to an end, it ...

Effective treatment of AF is important to enable people to continue to live healthy lives. The most common treatment pathway is medication, including several classes of anti-arrhythmia medication, ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's Volt™ PFA System to treat patients battling atrial fibrillation (AFib). Abbott will soon begin ...

Only a few months after Medtronic completed its acquisition of cardiac device maker Affera, the nearly billion-dollar buyout is already paying off. A dual-use catheter originally developed by Affera ...

Sarawak has reached a new milestone in advanced cardiac care with the successful completion of the first EPi-Sense hybrid ...