An ICD is a device used primarily to treat ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, two life-threatening heart rhythms.
Assessment of three schemes for stratifying stroke risk in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
Atrial fibrillation associated with heart valve disease, valve prosthesis, heart failure, intracardiac thrombus, or thyrotoxicosis.
Defibrillation-A procedure to stop the type of irregular heart beat called ventricular fibrillation, usually by using electric shock.
Digoxin is used to treat atrial fibrillation, an irregularity of the heart beat.
Dr. Howard Marshall This year has seen completion of recruitment to the study of atrio-ventricular node ablation and pacing for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
Fifteen per cent of all people who have had strokes have atrial fibrillation.
He was in atrial fibrillation and had a right pleural effusion and ascites.
Here the very system, being an acronym, is helpful in bringing to mind important risk factors for stroke with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation.
Patients who survive either ventricular fibrillation or sustained ventricular tachycardia have a high risk of further episodes, which may be fatal.
Problems caused by atrial fibrillation 1 The palpitation itself may be unpleasant.
The constant feeling of apprehension which you would experience comes from the release of adrenaline which would also cause atrial fibrillation.
The data streams from the two engines are superimposed to create an artificial atrial fibrillation waveform.
The ECG usually shows atrial fibrillation and left ventricular enlargement.
The most common form of sudden cardiac arrest is due to ventricular fibrillation - a rapid, chaotic, lethal rhythm of the heart.
The most common of these is called atrial fibrillation, which is usually treated with digoxin, an old drug derived from the foxglove.
The possible causes of atrial fibrillation have been given above.
Their medical history included atrial fibrillation, congestive cardiac failure and a NSAID induced GI bleed.
Untreated atrial septal defect can lead to pulmonary hypertension, chest infection, Eisenmenger's syndrome, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, stroke, or right-sided heart failure.
While I was in hospital, I developed atrial fibrillation with a pulse rate of 156.