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Arrhythmias during and after zoledronic acid infusion patients with bone metastasis.
Zoledronic acid (ZA) is one of the important bisphosphonates which is widely used in bone metastatic cancer and osteoporotic patients. In a few studies, it has been reported that treatment with bispho...
Coronary artery fistulae are uncommon but may be haemodynamically significant, being an incidental finding in 0.1-0.2% of coronary angiograms. Even rarer is the association between fistulae and non-at...
This study sought to determine the risk of ischemic stroke (IS)/thromboembolism (TE) associated with renal impairment and its incremental predictive value over established risk stratification scores (...
Atrial fibrillation in heart failure: drug therapies for rate and rhythm control.
Pharmacological treatment of atrial fibrillation in the context of heart failure poses numerous challenges. Management decisions are limited by contraindications to several drugs and the paucity of ro...
Giant right atrial thrombus in premature newborn.
Pediatric guidelines for treatment options of right atrial thrombosis in newborn are quite limited. Herein we present a case with giant atrial thrombosis resulting from umbilical venous catheter and i...
Propafenone Versus Vernakalant for Conversion of Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation.
INTRODUCTION: An oral loading dose of propafenone 600 mg is used in our center as in other places around the world for conversion of recent onset atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients without structura...
Femoral Venous Hemostasis in Children Using the Technique of "Figure-of-Eight" Sutures.
BACKGROUND: Structural heart interventions require the use of relatively large-diameter delivery sheaths or latex nylon net balloon catheters, which results in a relatively large-diameter venous punct...
The HATCH and CHA2DS 2-VASc scores : Prognostic value in pulmonary vein isolation.
AIMS: The HATCH score describes the risk of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (Afib) progression, while the CHA2DS2vasc score depicts the risk of thromboembolic events in patients with Afib. We hypothesi...
The direct factor Xa inhibitor apixaban (Eliquis(®)) has predictable pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics and does not require routine anticoagulation monitoring. This article reviews the efficacy a...
Rivaroxaban (Xarelto(®)), a direct factor Xa inhibitor, is approved for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) in Canada or those with nonvalvular AF...
News Articles
At HRS, Topera Topples Conventional Wisdom About Atrial Fibrillation
Topera Medical questions the assumptions underlying current therapies for atrial fibrillation. Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD, the electrophysiologist who founded Topera, has developed a means of identifying...
BERLIN -- (Marketwired) -- 05/23/13 -- BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of innovative medical technology, announced today that enrollment has been completed for the highly anticipated IMPACT study....
WAYNE, N.J., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MAQUET Cardiovascular LLC, a leading provider of cardiovascular technologies, today announced that it has acquired LAAx Inc., a privately held company that ha...
ANDOVER, Mass., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that CX50 xMATRIX, the world's first portable ultrasound with Philips' industry leading Li...
Boston Scientific Schedule of Major Events and Presentations at EuroPCR 2013
NATICK, Mass., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) is scheduled to participate at the annual EuroPCR Scientific Program May 21-24 in Paris. "We are pleased to p...
New Data On Boston Scientific's Atrial Fibrillation Watchman Device Could Lift Outlook
By Trefis: Boston Scientific's (BSX) stock rallied over 5% on Thursday after the medical device maker released the much-awaited four-year follow-up data from the Protect AF clinical trial pertainin...
New Technology Maps The Electronic Signals Of The Heart 3 Dimensionally
Researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center have developed a new 3-D technology that for the first time allows cardiologists the ability to see the precise source...
THERMOCOOL® SMARTTOUCH™ Catheter and Software Module Enables Contact Force Sensing in the Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Biosense Webster, Inc., a worldwi...
Endosense, a pioneer and leader in contact force (CF) technology focused on improving the efficacy and safety of catheter ablation for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias,...
Doubts dog new anticoagulant uptake
Experts are struggling to predict what the pattern of uptake will be of the new oral anticoagulants for the stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (SPAF) market. While nobody can dispute the need fo...
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St. Jude Medical, Inc. / AGA Medical
St. Jude Medical develops medical technology and services that focus on putting more control into the hands of those who treat cardiac, neurological and chronic pain patients worl...
Founded in 1998, SurgiVision, Inc. is a leader in the emerging field of MRI-guided interventions, creating innovative platforms for performing the next generation of minimally inv...
Founded in 1998, MRI Interventions, Inc. is creating innovative platforms for performing the next generation of minimally invasive surgical procedures in the brain and heart. Util...
Acutus Medical and Index Ventures
Acutus Medical is a medical technology company committed to developing an innovative breakthrough platform technology of safe, cost effective and clinically advanced tools for the...
Based in Eden Prairie, Minn., NeoChord is a privately held medical technology company focused on advancing the treatment of mitral regurgitation. The Company expects to commercial...
Based in Eden Prairie, Minn., NeoChord is a privately held medical technology company focused on advancing the treatment of mitral regurgitation. The Company received CE marking i...
ARYx Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing a portfolio of internally discovered products designed to eliminate known safety issues associated with well...
St. Jude Medical is dedicated to making life better for cardiac, neurological, and chronic pain patients worldwide through excellence in medical device technology and services. The company has five ma...
nContact is a medical device company founded in 2005 with a mission to develop devices for the endoscopic treatment of arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation (AF). The Numeris® Coagulation Syste...
Topera Medical (Topera, Inc.) is developing the proprietary FIRMap® System to assist electrophysiologists in the identification of the electrical source of cardiac arrhythmias....
Clinical Trials
Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Study II
A pilot, multicentre randomized controlled study of surgical left atrial occlusion (LAA) in 50 patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter undergoing cardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonar...
NAVISTAR® THERMOCOOL® Catheter for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
This trial compares the safety and effectiveness of catheter ablation for PAF with antiarrhythmic drug therapy. The investigational catheter being studied is the NAVISTAR® THERMOCOOL® ir...
Clinical Evaluation of the Blazer® Open-Irrigated Catheter for Treatment of Type 1 Atrial Flutter
The purpose of the BLOCk-CTI study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Blazer® Open-Irrigated Ablation Catheter for the treatment of sustained or recurrent type 1 atrial fl...
Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Atrial Fibrillation
Unlike for ventricular arrhythmias, the role of n-3 PUFAs in atrial arrhythmias has not been fully investigated. A recently published epidemiological study reported that in elderly patient...
Prevention Of Nephrotoxicity Following Bone Marrow Transplantation Using Urodilatin and Mannitol
The purpose of the study is to combine Urodilatin (ANP analogue), which will increase glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and mannitol, which will increase the rate of urinary flow and solut...
A Retrospective Analysis of the Use of ACE-Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers
It is well known that atrial fibrillation (AF) and atrial flutter (Aflut) occur frequently after most types of cardiac surgeries.(1-4) Postoperative AF is associated with significant morbi...
To assess the efficacy of dronedarone versus placebo for the maintenance of normal sinus rhythm after electrical, pharmacological or spontaneous conversion of atrial fibrillation/atrial f...
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether fish oils may be of benefit to patients with certain heart rhythm disturbances called atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter. Atrial fi...
Catheter Ablation as the First Line Therapy for Typical Atrial Flutter
Catheter ablation of typical atrial flutter is a well established technique with a high acute success rate and very low complication and recurrence rates. It has also been shown that ablat...
Randomized Study of Radiofrequency- vs. Cryo-Ablation for Typical Isthmus-Dependent Atrial Flutter
This randomized study compares two energy sources for the catheter based ablation of typical isthmus-dependent atrial flutter: The (standard) radiofrequency (RF) ablation technique and the...
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Natriuretic Peptides
Peptides that regulate the WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE in the body, also known as natriuretic peptide hormones. Several have been sequenced (ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE).
Atrial Septum
The thin membrane-like muscular structure separating the right and the left upper chambers (HEART ATRIA) of a heart.
Foramen Ovale, Patent
A condition in which the FORAMEN OVALE in the ATRIAL SEPTUM fails to close shortly after birth. This results in abnormal communications between the two upper chambers of the heart. An isolated patent ovale foramen without other structural heart defects is usually of no hemodynamic significance.
Sinus Arrest, Cardiac
The omission of atrial activation that is caused by transient cessation of impulse generation at the SINOATRIAL NODE. It is characterized by a prolonged pause without P wave in an ELECTROCARDIOGRAM. Sinus arrest has been associated with sleep apnea (REM SLEEP-RELATED SINUS ARREST).
Tachycardia, Reciprocating
Abnormally rapid heartbeats caused by reentrant conduction over the accessory pathways between the HEART ATRIA and the HEART VENTRICLES. The impulse can also travel in the reverse direction, as in some cases, atrial impulses travel to the ventricles over the accessory pathways and back to the atria over the BUNDLE OF HIS and the ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE.
