Hiroshi Ashikaga, assistant professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says that the success rate for atrial fibrillation patients twelve months after the procedure is 60 to 80 percent for ideal candidates with
intermittent irregular heartbeats.
Dogs that are affected with internal HSA often have an
irregular heartbeat, and are likely to have
intermittent episodes when their tumor will bleed, causing their gums and other mucous membranes to turn pale.