Sentences with phrase «catheter ablation»

«Morillo and colleagues have made an important contribution in defining the safety, efficacy, and clinical role of catheter ablation of AF in treating symptomatic patients with paroxysmal AF.

He is currently working on developing a cardiac electrophysiology laboratory to diagnose and treat via radiofrequency catheter ablation of arrhythmias.

In addition to having a higher rate of freedom from atrial fibrillation, participants who underwent catheter ablation also had lower rates of hospitalization and mortality during the two - year follow up.

Tung specializes in catheter ablation — a minimally invasive and often life - saving procedure to eliminate abnormal electrical signals that disrupt the heartbeat.

In the new study, 71 percent of patients treated with a surgical procedure called catheter ablation were free of atrial fibrillation, the study's primary endpoint, after two years of follow - up, while only 34 percent of patients who took the antiarrhythmic drug Amiodarone were free of symptoms at that point.

# 300,000 for a man who suffered complete heart block, requiring the implantation of a permanent pacemaker, as a consequence of a negligently performed catheter ablation procedure.

«The use of catheter ablation for AFL is very effective and can significantly reduce hospital visits and demand on health care services,» Marcus said.

«Heart failure patients fare better with catheter ablation than Amiodarone.»

Di Biase said another limitation of the study is that not all hospitals have the experience and equipment necessary to properly perform catheter ablation.

«Based on our study findings, physicians and patients need to be educated that atrial flutter can be readily cured through catheter ablation, and the procedure may reduce the risk for atrial fibrillation.»

Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute initially set out to discover if catheter ablation reduces the long - term risk of atrial fibrillation and whether the patients» age at the time of the procedure affected their risk.

Patients with Wolff - Parkinson - White syndrome who receive catheter ablation to cure their abnormal heart rhythms are just as likely as non-ablated patients to develop atrial fibrillation no matter what age they receive ablation, according to a new study.

But until now, RDN has not been performed in the accessory renal arteries due to their small diameter and the risk of developing a vascular stenosis after catheter ablation.

«Catheter ablation better than traditional drug therapies for treating atrial fibrillation.»

Performing a multivariate analysis adjusting for patient demographics and comorbidities, the UCSF researchers determined AFL catheter ablation reduced the risk for overall hospital - based health care by 6 percent, inpatient hospitalization by 12 percent and emergency department visits by 40 percent.

The research results were released at the European Society of Cardiology conference in Barcelona, Spain on August 27, 2017 during a session on catheter ablation.

In addition, catheter ablation resulted in lower cardiovascular mortality (13 %; 24/179) compared to the medication group (25 %; 46/184).

Researchers at the University of Utah Health and Klinikum Coburg, Germany co-led a clinical trial that showed radiofrequency catheter ablation lowered hospitalization and mortality rates by 47 and 44 percent respectively in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), a contributing factor to heart failure.

Marrouche and Johannes Brachmann from the Klinikum Coburg conducted the eight - year CASTLE - AF clinical trial to compare catheter ablation to conventional drug therapies recommended by the American Heart Association and European Heart Society to control the heart's rate.

«However, we believe our study findings, in combination with the previous literature and our clinical experience, are sufficient to support catheter ablation as first - line treatment for AFL,» Marcus said.

«Our study sought to create an accurate predictor and measure of success and we showed that if the procedure improved electrical communication in the heart immediately following catheter ablation, then it can be a read - out for longer term success.»

During catheter ablation, which typically takes four to five hours, cardiologists thread a catheter, or long thin tube, up through a blood vessel from the groin to the heart and use it as a conduit to send radiofrequency energy to cauterize the misfiring cells.

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Among patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, those who underwent catheter ablation were less likely to die, be hospitalized or have recurrent atrial fibrillation than patients taking a heart rhythm regulating drug, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

Located in New York, and as a former patient at the hospital, Cornell's Cardiology Companion Animal services provide, «a number of interventional therapies including, but not limited to, pacemaker implantation, occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus, balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonic and subaortic stenosis, cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and radiofrequency catheter ablation of arrhythmias.»

When drugs aren't effective for treating atrial fibrillation, cardiologists may use a procedure called catheter ablation to cauterize, or burn, the heart tissue that's the source of the electrical misfire.

«For the first time in a randomized study, the strategy of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation may be better than the current approach for these patients.

Use of catheter ablation is not only beneficial for treating atrial flutter but also can significantly reduce hospital visits — both inpatient and emergency — and lower the risk for atrial fibrillation, according to research by UC San Francisco.

Young, healthy patients with atrial fibrillation can expect a success rate of 90 % with catheter ablation, says Adrian Hernandez, MD, a cardiologist with the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

AFL can be treated through catheter ablation, especially if medications or electrical cardioversion (shocking the heart back to a normal rhythm) are unsuccessful.

Women with atrial fibrillation are more likely to experience complications after catheter ablation than men, but there is a silver lining to these findings.

PURE EP is a surface electrocardiogram and intracardiac multichannel recording system that acquires, processes, and displays high fidelity cardiac recordings required during electrophysiology studies and catheter ablation procedures.

In catheter ablation, an electrophysiologist inserts a catheter (thin flexible tube) in a groin artery and guides it through blood vessels to the heart.

Treatments include drugs to regulate the electrical pulses in the upper chambers of the heart and 3/4 increasingly 3/4 catheter ablation.

Johns Hopkins researchers report successful use of heart imaging to predict the benefit or futility of catheter ablation, an increasingly popular way to treat atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder.

«Our study suggests that in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation is an effective alternative treatment that can help patients avoid or discontinue this drug to reduce the risk of these long - term side effects.»

The treatment, called catheter ablation, involves burning selected spots of tissue inside the heart with the tip of a catheter.

But when drugs don't work or cause unacceptable side effects, alternative treatments include surgery or catheter ablation.

The researchers randomly assigned half of the patients to undergo catheter ablation, a surgical procedure in which doctors thread thin, flexible wires into the heart through blood vessels in the arm, groin or neck.

Catheter ablation was most successful in procedures where ablation was required in other areas in addition to the pulmonary vein, researchers said.

The patients were separated into two groups, receiving either radiofrequency catheter ablation (179) or a conventional drug therapy (184).

«Catheter ablation a first - line treatment for atrial flutter.»

According to American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association guidelines issued in 2003, catheter ablation to treat a first episode of AFL currently is only a Class IIa recommendation, Class I after arrhythmia recurrence.

Of the 33,004 patients with an AFL diagnosis (in the absence of an AF diagnosis) and who were observed an average of 2.1 years, 2,733 (8.2 percent) received a catheter ablation.

In a small proof - of - concept study, researchers at Johns Hopkins report a complex mathematical method to measure electrical communications within the heart can successfully predict the effectiveness of catheter ablation, the standard of care treatment for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat disorder.

Catheter ablation is the procedure to destroy the misfiring heart cells and improve the heart's electrical communication system.

This study sought to create a measure of success for catheter ablation, so that physicians and patients could know immediately following treatment whether it was effective, or whether they'll need to anticipate another procedure in the future.

Catheter ablation is a technique that can cure the abnormal heart rhythms by cauterizing or freezing that extra pathway.