The pulmonary veins are an important source of ectopic beats, initiating frequent paroxysms of atrial fibrillation. These foci respond to treatment with radio-frequency ablation.
Abstract We herein present an overview of the upcoming 5 th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Haematolymphoid Tumours focussing on lymphoid neoplasms. M...
Among patients with severe secondary mitral regurgitation, the rate of death or unplanned hospitalization for heart failure at 1 year did not differ significantly between patien...
Background Atrial fibrillation is usually thought to be due to multiple circulating reentrant wavelets. From previous studies, a focal mechanism is considered to be very unlikel...
Symptomatic AF prior to initiation of antiarrhythmic therapy with a Class I or III antiarrhythmic medication Paroxysmal: Surgical ablation is reasonable.IIa
RF Catheter Ablation in AF. Introduction: The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation of localized mechanisms of atrial fibril...
Increased length of a protein-coding CAG repeat within the androgen receptor gene appears to be the only type of mutation responsible for spino-bulbal muscular atrophy (SBMA or ...