Recently, researchers have observed these spirals in both human and animal hearts during cardiac fibrillation.
Hazlett is worried that this reflects lower sales of Cordarone for ventricular fibrillation and Refacto for hemophilia.
New indications for these drugs have been granted for patients with atrial fibrillation and following orthopedic surgery.
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Before Pradaxa was approved, advertisements were running on TV telling patients to ask their doctors about atrial fibrillation.
Sometimes, however, these waves become horribly distorted and make the heart beat erratically, a condition called cardiac fibrillation.
The role of one major cause of stroke, atrial fibrillation (AF), has not been the subject of close scrutiny.
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Non-valvular atrial fibrillation refers to atrial fibrillation in patients who do not have significant problems in their heart valves.
This means that in the atrial fibrillation market, Eliquis now has an advantage.
In contrast, the surgery patients had higher rates of bleeding and atrial fibrillation.
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An irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, can also lead to ischaemic stroke.
But more than one alcoholic drink can have consequences: Excessive drinking can trigger atrial fibrillation, a form of irregular heartbeat.
Fish oil capsules failed to prevent flare-ups of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm problem, in a large study in 2010.
Atrial fibrillation occurs in more than 2 million Americans and is one of the most common types of abnormal heart rhythm.
Coordinated efforts are needed to face the increasing challenge of optimal stroke prevention and rhythm management in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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Mr Flood suffers from an irregular heart rhythm condition called atrial fibrillation.
If it persists, atrial fibrillation ups your odds of suffering a stroke.
Patients with persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation are also indicated for single chamber ventricular pacers unless efforts are being made to restore sinus rhythm.
The number of patients with atrial fibrillation is likely to increase 2.5-fold during the next 50 years, reflecting the growing proportion of elderly individuals.
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The electrical activity fails to die away properly, and moves around the muscle in a turbulent pattern causing an arrhythmia known as ventricular fibrillation.
Our study confirms that atrial fibrillation is common among older adults and provides a contemporary basis for estimates of prevalence in the United States.
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The 663 patient trial compared patients with a type of atrial fibrillation called paroxysmal AF, giving half the fish oil pill and half a placebo.
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Many physicists and physiologists suspect that fibrillation is chaotic, and are trying to model it in order to find ways of stabilising the dangerous convulsions.
Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is one type of arrhythmia that is deadly.
Growth in sales was strongest in the atrial fibrillation and neuromodulation segments, which posted respective gains for the full year of 26% and 17% over 2005.
Now catheter ablation is being used for the most common rhythm problem atrial fibrillation, which plagues about 3 million Americans and 15 million people worldwide.
The government's watchdog NICE says patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), an erratic and sometimes fast heartbeat, can now have rivaroxiban instead of the existing drug warfarin.
New research has found that patients with cryptogenic stroke may be suffering from an irregular heartbeat condition known as atrial fibrillation, a known cause of stroke.
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But according to Daniel Gauthier, a physicist at Duke University in North Carolina, if cardiac fibrillation is chaotic, it is not the usual kind of chaos.
The cause in about half the cases is ventricular fibrillation, an electrical disturbance in the heart that is most responsive to a shock from an AED.
The research suggests that current monitoring of patients with cryptogenic strokes for atrial fibrillation may not be long enough, which is why the condition has gone undetected.
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