Our good friends at the Atrial Fibrillation Association (in the UK) have just sent out the message below. Please help them win funds to continue raising awareness of atrial fibrillation. Atrial Fibrillation Association (AFA) is calling on people to vote to help it secure funds for its vital projects to improve the lives of people …
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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, but Dr. Jais sees them as encouraging. Pierre Jais, MD, is Professor of Cardiology at …
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In this video interview, Dr. Keith Ferdinand, Professor at Emory University and Chief Science Officer of the Association of Black Cardiologists, talked about minority health. He focused especially on heart disease and atrial fibrillation among blacks and African Americans. He addressed the conundrum of why blacks appear to have less …
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In this video, Dr. Keith Ferdinand, Chief Science Officer of the Association of Black Cardiologists, talked about heart disease and atrial fibrillation among minorities, especially blacks and African Americans. He talked about why blacks appear to have less afib than whites, and what blacks should be doing to prevent AF and heart disease. Watch the …
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You're invited to join AF Stat™: A Call to Action for Atrial Fibrillation for the unveiling of the results of AFib in America: State Impact Reports. This first-of-its-kind analysis will feature state level statistics and resources related to the burden of atrial fibrillation (AFib) across the nation. To learn more, see: AF Stat Coalition to …
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Mellanie True Hills, founder and CEO of StopAfib.org and an atrial fibrillation survivor, is an invited speaker for the Fourth Annual Western Atrial Fibrillation Symposium taking place February 25-26, 2011 in Park City, UT. Symposium Director Dr. Nassir F. Marrouche says, " For the first time, the faculty includes someone representing the patients." Learn more: …
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Researchers at the Comprehensive Arrhythmia Research and Management Center (CARMA) in Utah have been studying the relationship between atrial fibrillation, atrial fibrosis, and catheter ablation outcomes for many years. Now, they’ve applied their knowledge of quantifying atrial fibrosis to stroke risk assessment and found that the amount of atrial fibrosis, not type of afib, is …
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New research from Denmark shows that CHADS2 underestimates stroke risk. In the study, atrial fibrillation patients who were at intermediate risk with the CHADS2 scoring system had more than twice the stroke rate of those defined by the enhanced CHA2DS2-VASc tool as being at intermediate risk. While CHADS2 deemed 32.3% of patients to have intermediate …
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At the recent Boston AF Symposium, investigators of the STOP AF clinical trial, which investigated the effectiveness and safety of Medtronic’s Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system, showed that electrophysiologists who are more experienced with the device had better success rates and no major complications compared to those who had performed just one or two …
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Today's featured story comes from Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium where we talked with Dr. Pierre Jais about new 5-year catheter ablation results that his team at Bordeaux has just published. One-third of these patients had persistent or longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation. These results have been described in the media as "sobering", but hear Dr. Jais …
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