News tagged with heart rhythms

Study shows fainting factor in cardiac arrests

A new study by Dr. Andrew Krahn shows that over a quarter of unexplained cardiac arrests occurred after the patient had an event of fainting, known as syncope. According to Dr. Krahn, a Cardiologist at London Health Sciences ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Erratic heart rhythm may account for some unexplained strokes

Occasional erratic heart rhythms appear to cause about one-fifth of strokes for which a cause is not readily established, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference ...

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created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

MS drug prevented fatal heart condition in lab study

A drug used to treat multiple sclerosis may also be effective at preventing and reversing the leading cause of heart attack, a new study has found.

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cardiologists suggest patient-centered approach to replacing implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the United States annually, fully a quarter of those are generator replacements simply because the battery is depleted. But are all those replacements ...

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Middle-aged men with upper-normal blood pressure at risk for AF

Middle-aged men at the upper end of normal blood pressure had an elevated risk for atrial fibrillation later in life, according to new research in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Atrial arrhythmias detected by pacemakers increase risk of stroke

An irregular heartbeat that you don't even feel but can be picked up by a pacemaker is associated with a significantly increased risk of stroke, says a new McMaster University study.

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA adds new heart warning to Sanofi's Multaq

Federal health officials have added new safety warnings to the heart rhythm drug Multaq after company studies linked the pill to higher rates of heart attack, stroke and death in a subset of patients.

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Snipping key nerves may help life threatening heart rhythms

What do sweaty palms and abnormal heart rhythms have in common? Both can be initiated by the nervous system during adrenaline-driven "flight or fight" stress reaction when the body senses danger.

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The benefits of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failure

However, large-scale clinical trials have highlighted the beneficial effect of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) in the improvement of symptoms and reduction of mortality, and CRT is now recommended in the major European ...

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reusing pacemakers from deceased patients is safe and effective, study finds

Many heart patients in India are too poor to afford pacemakers. But a study has found that removing pacemakers from deceased Americans, resterilizing the devices and implanting them in Indian patients "is very safe and effective."

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New method for safer dosing of anticoagulants

Elderly people with atrial fibrillation are often treated with anticoagulants to thin the blood, but this medicine is hard to dose and patients have to have their blood tested regularly. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy ...

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Used' pacemakers give Indians new lease of life

Chandrakan Pawar is lucky to be alive. In September, the Indian former textile mill worker was given an artificial pacemaker after his heart rate plunged to just 20 to 30 beats per minute.

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created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Few doctors follow sudden cardiac death screening guidelines for athletes

According to a state survey, fewer than 6 percent of doctors fully follow national guidelines for assessing sudden cardiac death risk during high school sports physicals, researchers said at the American Heart Association's ...

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created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wearable defibrillator can prevent death in people with arrhythmias

A wearable defibrillator can prevent sudden death in people with dangerous heart arrhythmias, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2011.

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created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most Americans with HCM live normal life spans

Most of the 600,000 Americans with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) -- a genetic heart muscle disease -- can live normal life spans, according to the first science-based guideline for diagnosing and treating this disorder.

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created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0