Cardiac ablation—also called catheter ablation—is a procedure doctors use to treat irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias. During cardiac ablation, doctors insert a thin tube called a catheter into your ...

Your cardiologist may recommend a cardiac ablation if you have an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). The procedure sends heat or cold through thin, flexible wires (catheters) to the damaged heart ...

A catheter is a long, flexible tube that a doctor inserts into a blood vessel and then guides into your heart. Catheter ablation is a way to treat irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias, like atrial ...

Electrophysiologists hoping to improve upon ablation therapy for persistent atrial fibrillation (Afib, AF) found no success going the extra mile to isolate the patient's left atrial posterior wall, ...

Background: Symptomatic prolonged sinus pauses on termination of atrial fibrillation (AF) are an accepted indication for pacemaker implantation. We evaluated the outcome of AF ablation in patients ...

Some people experience leg pain after a heart ablation procedure at the insertion site of the catheter. Alternatively, they may have an allergic reaction to the medication they receive alongside the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a post hoc analysis of the CABANA trial, researchers analyzed 819 women and 1,385 men to investigate the ...

Milan, Italy - Prophylactic catheter ablation markedly reduces the frequency of arrhythmic events in asymptomatic patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, according to a recent randomized ...

MADRID, Spain—Stopping oral anticoagulation (OAC) improves outcomes among patients who remain free from atrial arrhythmia recurrences for at least a year after catheter ablation for atrial ...

This procedure uses energy to make small scars in your heart tissue. These scars stop unusual electrical signals that move through your heart and cause an uneven heartbeat (your doctor might call it ...