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By Mellanie True Hills February 7, 2011 — StopAfib.org announces a new atrial fibrillation patient profile. Our newest profile is of Michele Straube, an attorney turned mediator and outdoors enthusiast, who found an innovative diagnostic team that treated her atrial fibrillation with catheter ablation. Now that her afib is gone, she is undertaking a multi-year …

By Mellanie True Hills Summary: In this video interview, Dr. Daniel Singer discusses devices and anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation stroke prevention, including the rivaroxaban and dabigatran clinical trial results. Reading and watching time: Approximately 11–12 minutes In this video interview, Dr. Daniel Singer, of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, discussed …

By Christine Welniak February 3, 2011 — A major focus of the recent Boston AF Symposium was the durability of catheter ablation. Studies discussed there by Dr. David Wilber, of Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, showed that up to 30% of patients could have very late recurrence of atrial fibrillation following catheter ablation. Very …

By Christine Welniak January 27, 2011 — At the recent Boston AF Symposium, conference organizer, Dr. Jeremy Ruskin, presented data from the STOP AF clinical trial showing that learning curve impacted cryoablation success in treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Doctors who had more experience with the Arctic Front Cardiac Cryoablation Catheter system had better outcomes than those …

In this video interview at Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, Dr. Pierre Jais, of the University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France), clarifies his group's recently-published long-term catheter ablation results. These results were called "sobering" in the media ("Sobering" long-term outcomes following ablation of atrial fibrillation), but Dr. Jais sees them as encouraging. The results, reported in the …

UPDATE: The live sessions at the Virtual Health Fair have been saved and you can watch them, and visit the booths, through April 19, 2011, at www.stroke.org/virtualhealthfair Dallas, TX, January 18, 2011 — StopAfib.org is participating in the National Stroke Association's first annual Virtual Health Fair on Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Registration is free, but …

In this video, Dr. John Sirak, of the Ohio State University Medical Center (Columbus, OH), talks about the 5-box total thoracoscopic maze procedure, a minimally-invasive surgical procedure for afib that is achieving good results, even among those with persistent or longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation. This video is a companion to our previous article, New Mini Maze Procedure …

By Mellanie True Hills December 30, 2010 — The StopAfib.org 2010 List of Most Popular Atrial Fibrillation News Stories and Videos indicates the topics of most interest to the afib community this year. Most Popular News Stories in 2010 Stroke prevention certainly topped the list of most popular news stories, and included stories about warfarin …

By Mellanie True Hills December 21, 2010 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Medtronic's Arctic Front® Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. This is the first cryo (freezing) catheter ablation system to receive U.S. approval, and contains a traditional single-point catheter as well as a unique balloon …