Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with atrial fibrillation and high risk for stroke and bleeding, left atrial appendage occlusion was ...

This case study involves a 51-year-old woman with a complex cardiovascular condition, namely cor triatriatum dexter, accompanied by sick sinus syndrome. She presented with bradycardia, dizziness, and ...

Introduction: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic cardiac disease marked by abnormal ventricular hypertrophy. Recent studies have highlighted that left atrial (LA) ...

Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day. Sometimes it beats faster and sometimes more slowly, depending on what you're doing and whether, for instance, you're all worked up about something. So ...

ABSTRACT: This study examines hemodynamic behavior in particular cases of pulmonary hypertension without treatment. Pulmonary hypertension represents an anomalous hemodynamic state and is ...

The mitral valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium of the heart into the left ventricle. Mitral regurgitation occurs when the mitral valve leaks blood back into the left atrium. A person’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . OPTION is a head-to-head trial of left atrial appendage closure with Watchman FLX vs. anticoagulation after ...

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is increasingly recognized as a cause of secondary mitral regurgitation (SMR), exacerbating heart failure symptoms and complicating the management of AF.

Background: Knowledge of physiologic and anatomic abnormalities that attend the spectrum of atrial fibrillation (AF) is incomplete. Left atrial physiology in patients who have developed atrial ...