SUDDEN death in persons with artificial pacemakers is a continuing and disturbing problem. Causes include pacemaker-catheter displacement, electric-component failure, broken wires and rising pacing ...

TRANSIENT arrhythmias are frequently encountered during catheterization of the right side of the heart. 1 They occur most frequently during manipulation of the catheter in the atrium as isolated ...

Many people who have suffered a heart attack subsequently develop life-threatening complications like ventricular fibrillation. Now an international research team from the University of Freiburg's ...

In patients without established cardiac disease, the occurrence of premature ventricular complexes without sustained ventricular tachycardia is more an annoyance than a medical risk, and treatment is ...

Background Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in children is a rare but devastating event, with an estimated incidence of ...

Senator John Fetterman takes *** fall walking near his house in Braddock today. *** spokesperson tells us he went to the hospital. Doctors say he had something called an atrial fibrillation flare up ...

A. KESH HEBBAR, M.D. Family physicians frequently encounter patients with symptoms that could be related to cardiac arrhythmias, most commonly atrial fibrillation or supraventricular tachycardias. The ...