Key takeawaysCatheter ablation is widely performed to treat atrial fibrillation (AF) but evidence on whether the procedure improves patients' quality ...

Patients with structural heart disease are at risk for life-threatening ventricular tachycardias (VTs). Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) can terminate VT, but often at the cost of ...

Share on Pinterest First cryoablation surgery performed at Zakarpattia Regional Cardiology Centre UZHHOROD, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 3, 2020 – Professor of the Gottsegen Hungarian Institute of Cardiology ...

Cardiac arrhythmias are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Catheter ablation provides a minimally invasive means to target and eliminate arrhythmogenic substrates within the heart.

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, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation reduces anxiety and depression symptoms better than ...

For patients with atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation reduces the risk of ischemic stroke at more than 30 days, mortality, and heart failure hospitalization, while surgical ablation only reduces ...

An international consensus statement on how to treat atrial fibrillation with catheter or surgical ablation has been published in EP Europace and presented at EHRA 2024. Lead author Dr. Stylianos ...

Catheter ablation is fast becoming one of the safest and most effective treatments for atrial fibrillation (AF) as new technologies become increasingly available to treat a wide spectrum of the ...