Arrhythmias in Medical News

Atrial fibrillation in endurance athletes still poses problems for sports cardiologists

... training will increase the risk of cardiac arrhythmias and even sudden death, especially among those in ... in an individual patient, and how best to manage arrhythmias in participants." Atrial fibrillation is the most ... Dr Mont's Barcelona clinic found that freedom of arrhythmias following CPVA was similar in the sports ...

EUROPACE 2009, the leading European congress on cardiac arrhythmias and pacing

... is today the foremost European meeting on cardiac arrhythmias and pacing. More than 4,000 participants are ... Its mission is to reduce the impact of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). EUROPACE 2009 ... quality of care with a more uniform treatment of arrhythmias and better prevention of sudden cardiac death in ...

Expert consensus on catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias

... physicians and their patients with ventricular arrhythmias that require treatment. In addition, specific ... ventricular arrhythmias. Ventricular arrhythmias may cause symptoms such as syncope and ... and sudden death. Many patients with ventricular arrhythmias and structural heart disease have implantable ...

Irregular Heartbeat During Angioplasty Could Raise Death Risk

... attack. Patients who experienced these cardiac arrhythmias during the procedure had about triple the odds of ... no increased risk of death for people with heart arrhythmias during a PCI. However, the earlier trial ... might improve the outlook in cases where arrhythmias occur, Mehta said. "We are now doing a longer ...

An angry heart can lead to sudden death, Yale researchers find

... on by anger or other strong emotions to future arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrests, which are blamed for ... instability were more likely to experience arrhythmias one year after the study than those in the ... the body's response to stress, thereby preventing arrhythmias in those at risk," said Lampert. Lampert's ...

Control Your Anger, Help Your Heart

... years, 16 percent of the participants experienced arrhythmias that set off their implanted defibrillators, and ... In the laboratory, anger is predictive of having arrhythmias in the future." It's possible that an anger ... testing are at greater risk for ventricular arrhythmias detectable by implanted cardiac defibrillators." ...

EUROPACE 2009

... is today the foremost European meeting on cardiac arrhythmias and pacing. More than 4,000 participants are ... Its mission is to reduce the impact of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). This year, and ... treat the potentially life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular ...

Pfizer contributes critical data to URMC drug safety initiative

... for adverse cardiac events, such as dangerous arrhythmias and heart attacks. Sudden cardiac arrest is ... that trigger a predisposition to lethal cardiac arrhythmias or even the drugs themselves. As part of FDA's ... associated with episodes of fatal ventricular arrhythmias is a leading cause of removal of drugs from the ...

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center First in the Nation to Use a New Generation of Medical Robots for Complex Electrophysiology Mapping Procedures

... the ablation treatment for heart arrhythmias are exposed to about 30 percent less radiation ... the new technology, among other benefits. Heart arrhythmias are problems that affect the electrical system, or "wiring," of the heart muscle. Heart arrhythmias are very common. Experts say that millions of ...

URMC, FDA to collaborate on national data repository for heart research

... triggering a predisposition to lethal cardiac arrhythmias or by the drugs themselves. As part of FDA's ... associated with episodes of fatal ventricular arrhythmias is a leading cause of removal of drugs from the ... an international effort in the science of heart arrhythmias and a rare genetic condition associated with an ...

Angina drug potentially useful against heart rhythm disorders

... of Cardiology (ACC) in Chicago. Cardiac arrhythmias are electrical malfunctions that throw the heart ... deaths each year in the United States. Most fatal arrhythmias occur in aging patients when scar tissue left by ... QT, but also in more common post-heart attack arrhythmias and in conditions including hypertension, ...

Stereotaxis' Market Leadership Highlighted at Heart Rhythm 2009

... with the Niobe Remote Magnetic Navigation System and the treatment of arrhythmias in children. These booth presentations are separate from their independent ... in a hospital's interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of arrhythmias and coronary artery disease. The Stereotaxis system is designed to enable ...

Study IDs Gene Variants Tied to Sudden Cardiac Death

... Finding could prevent fatal arrhythmias by limiting meds in those with risk factor MONDAY, March 23 ... QT prolongation results from medications leading to drug-induced cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death. This is a cardiotoxic side effect of scores of ...

CHEST 2008: Featured abstracts

... Of the 75 patients who underwent lung transplant, 38 percent developed arrhythmias within 30 days of transplantation. The most common arrhythmia was atrial ... tissue (atrial cuff or pulmonary vein) is a likely source of the arrhythmias passed to lung recipients. #6783 IN-HOSPITAL STATIN USE MAY IMPROVE ...

The American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and the Heart Rhythm Society Release Updated Cardiac Device-Based Therapy Guidelines

... analysis of recent studies that have advanced our knowledge of cardiac arrhythmias as well as major advances in device technology," said writing committee ... address device-based therapy indications for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and conditions including heart failure, congenital heart disease and ...

Study Offers Clues to Link Between Arrhythmia, Sudden Death

... LQT1. The researchers believe that the electrical cause for the deadly arrhythmias in the LQT2 group is increased spatial dispersion of repolarization across ... are a first step toward gaining a better understanding of how and why arrhythmias cause sudden cardiac death. However, there is much more that we still ...

Evidence that stun guns may stimulate the heart

... stun gun use have been documented, 20 of them in Canada. Regarding arrhythmias long after the discharge of the stun gun, Dr. Nanthakumar, Dr. Paul Dorian ... (under certain electrophysical conditions) can result in cardiac arrhythmias late after stun gun discharge. With regards to deleterious effects on the ...

How does P wave dispersion change in patients with Wilson's disease?

... organ involvement. Main cardiac manifestations in Wilson's disease include arrhythmias and cardiac failure. Recently, researchers at the Ankara Yksek Ihtisas ... tool, PWD, to foresee the possible devastating cardiac manifestations like arrhythmias which even asymptomatic patients can suffer from. Though Wilson's ...

Stereotaxis Reports 19% Second Quarter Revenue Growth

... and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in a hospital's interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of arrhythmias and coronary artery disease. The Stereotaxis system is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures by providing ...

ATS Medical Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

... up 21.9% on a year-over-year basis to $14.7 million. Revenue from the Company's ATS CryoMaze(TM) cryoablation products for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias was $4.7 million, an increase of 7.7% compared to the second quarter of 2008. Excluding the impact of foreign currency fluctuations revenue growth ...

OraVerse (R) Selected by Dentistry Today Magazine as One of the Top 100 Products of 2009

... less than six years of age or weighing less than 15 kg (33 lbs). Important Safety Information Tachycardia, bradycardia, and cardiac arrhythmias may occur with the use of phentolamine or other alpha-adrenergic blocking agents. Although such effects are uncommon with OraVerse (phentolamine ...

Stereotaxis Announces Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call

... and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in a hospital's interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of arrhythmias and coronary artery disease. The Stereotaxis system is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures by providing ...

Sleep Disorders Linked to Arrhythmias

... seems to be a threshold effect such that moderate-to-severe sleep-disordered breathing confers the greatest increased odds of clinically significant arrhythmias independent of self-reported heart failure and cardiovascular disease." The study also found that hypoxia (deficiency in the amount of oxygen ...

NUCYNTA(TM) (tapentadol) CII Immediate Release Tablets Now Available for Relief of Moderate to Severe Acute Pain

... and vasopressors) should be employed in the management of circulatory shock and pulmonary edema accompanying overdose as indicated. Cardiac arrest or arrhythmias may require cardiac massage or defibrillation. Patients should be cautioned that NUCYNTA(TM) may impair the mental and/or physical abilities ...

Implanted defibrillators: New recommendations for drivers with ICDs

... in 2006 and 85500 ICDs in 2008. Many patients are currently implanted for primary prevention (treatment of patients at risk for life-threatening arrhythmias who have never had sustained ventricular arrhythmias). The risk for sudden incapacitation is lower in these patients. Therefore, driving restriction ...

Big disparities in the treatment of arrhythmias across Europe

... highest down to 1:1.2 ratio as the lowest. In the field of invasive electrophysiology and catheter ablation for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias the number of centres available is variable ranging from less than 0.2 to more than 3 centres/ million. The total number of catheter ablations is ...

Crowded emergency departments pose greater risks for patients with heart attacks

... department treatment. Complications included serious events, such as heart failure, delayed heart attacks, dangerously low blood pressure, heart arrhythmias and cardiac arrest. When the emergency department was at its highest occupancy and waiting room census, patients with acute coronary syndrome ...

Perforomist(R) Inhalation Solution Data in Patients With Moderate to Severe COPD to Be Presented at the International Conference of the American Thoracic Society

... Perforomist Inhalation Solution should be used with caution in patients with cardiovascular disorders, especially coronary insufficiency, cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension. In COPD clinical trials, the most common adverse events reported with Perforomist Inhalation Solution (>2% and more common ...

Heating heart with catheter better than drugs for common heart rhythm disorder

... a treatment called catheter ablation, 63 percent of patients with an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation were free of any recurrent atrial arrhythmias or symptoms. By comparison, only 17 percent of those treated with drugs were arrhythmia-free. Results were so convincing the trial was halted early. ...

Dey, L.P. Highlights Perforomist(R) Inhalation Solution Data to Be Presented at the International Conference of the American Thoracic Society

... Perforomist Inhalation Solution should be used with caution in patients with cardiovascular disorders, especially coronary insufficiency, cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension. In COPD clinical trials, the most common adverse events reported with Perforomist Inhalation Solution (>2% and more common ...

Risk Factor for Stroke More Common Among Whites

... factors for AF, even higher than those of Caucasian patients, yet have a lower occurrence." Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common cardiac arrhythmias in the country. Risk factors include being male and/or older, hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. More information The Heart ...

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center Celebrates Successful First Year

... significantly. Heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias) are problems that affect the electrical system, or "wiring," of the heart muscle. Heart arrhythmias are very common and millions of people will experience an abnormal heart rhythm during their lives. Natale serves as the Executive Medical ...

Stereotaxis Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in a hospital's interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of arrhythmias and coronary artery disease. The Stereotaxis system is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures by providing ...

Vivek Y. Reddy, M.D., Joins The Mount Sinai Medical Center as Director of Electrophysiology Laboratories

... His appointment becomes effective July 1. Dr. Reddy leads a team of physician-scientists who are developing definitive therapies for cardiac arrhythmias - including atrial fibrillation, the most common abnormal heart rhythm affecting millions of Americans, and ventricular tachycardias, the most common ...

ATS Medical Appoints New Vice President of Marketing

... Reinhardt noted, "This is truly a unique position that affords me the opportunity to quickly apply my experience in structural heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias and cryotherapy to the existing ATS portfolio of products. I'm excited to be working within such a high performing organization and look forward to ...

Stereotaxis Announces First Quarter 2009 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call

... and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in a hospital's interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of arrhythmias and coronary artery disease. The Stereotaxis system is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures by providing ...

Faster, better diagnosis for patients with heart rhythm disorders

... and flutter irregular, rapid heartbeats caused by electrical disturbances in the upper chambers of the heart muscle are the most common arrhythmias in the world and affect about eight per cent of the elderly. The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre specializes in the treatment of patients with various ...

Safety Alert: From the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

... Risk Factors associated with falls are: Impaired musculoskeletal function, gait abnormality and osteoporosis. Cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat), blood pressure fluctuation. Depression, Alzheimer's disease and senility. Arthritis, hip weakness or ...

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center First in Nation to Use NaviStar(R) RMT ThermoCool(R) Catheter Since Technology Received FDA Approval

... training and research institute specializing in heart rhythm disorders led by world-renowned electrophysiologist, Andrea Natale, M.D., F.A.C.C. arrhythmias are problems that affect the electrical system, or "wiring," of the heart muscle. They are very common and millions of people will experience an ...

Stereotaxis Announces FDA Approval of the NAVISTAR(R) RMT THERMOCOOL(R) Catheter

... a quantum leap forward for remote ablation procedures and has demonstrated the potential to establish a new standard of care for treating cardiac arrhythmias in all chambers of the heart. "This important milestone will provide our customers an expansion of system capabilities through the availability ...