Lu Chen, M.D., is a cardiologist specializing in electrophysiology with MyMichigan Physicians Group.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent cardiac arrhythmia encountered in the critically ill, often emerging de novo in patients admitted with severe systemic illnesses such as sepsis. Its ...

Asundexian 50 mg daily was inferior to apixaban for stroke and systemic embolism prevention in high-risk patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Finerenone reduced risk for new-onset atrial fibrillation vs. placebo in a pooled analysis. The patient ...

Atrial fibrillation is a common arrhythmia, and experts are interested in the relationship between atrial fibrillation and other conditions like dementia. Recent study results suggest that atrial ...

The volume of epicardial adipose tissue was independently associated with new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) in individuals without a history of the condition. Patients with the highest volumes of ...

USA: Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging may help identify patients at higher risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF) by detecting increased metabolic activity in the atrial walls, a new ...

Screening improves detection of new-onset atrial fibrillation among patients at elevated stroke risk. (HealthDay News) — Six-month smartwatch-based atrial fibrillation (AF) screening improves ...

A research group led by Assistant Professor Megumi Aimoto and Professor Akira Takahara at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, revealed that pyrazole-3 (Pyr3), a selective ...

We conducted an international, open-label, randomized, blinded-outcome-assessment trial involving 1284 patients who had undergone successful catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation at least 1 year ...

In a new study of people with atrial fibrillation, those who drank at least one cup of caffeinated coffee a day had a lower risk of experiencing new episodes, compared with those who had no caffeine.