LA Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh is having a cardiac ablation during the offseason. It's a procedure to treat an irregular heart rhythm. The procedure involves creating tiny scars in the heart that ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said Wednesday that he will have a cardiac ablation this offseason and hip replacement surgery. Harbaugh, 61, briefly left the ...

Johnson & Johnson MedTech announced that it has halted U.S. procedures and sales of its recently approved Varipulse pulsed field ablation system following reports of four patient strokes.

A decade-long study which is a part of the German Ablation Registry highlighted the long-term outcomes of catheter ablation, the primary treatment for idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT). The ...

All ablation cases set to use the Varipulse pulsed-field ablation (PFA) system have been temporarily halted in the United States after four neurovascular events were reported during an external ...

ventricular tachycardia ablation was performed under pre-visualized guidance simultaneously with the LVAD implantation. Considering the need for LVAD implantation and to prevent scar-related reentrant ...

In this interview, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD, MBA, FACC, and Alison L. Bailey, MD FACC, discuss the Top Electrophysiology (EP) Takeaways from 2024. Dr. Lakkireddy discusses climate change, high school ...

worsen left ventricular function, and create multiple adverse consequences despite optimal medical therapy for HF. Maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with HF and AF can improve outcomes, but ...

These patients often show substantial ad hoc left ventricular scar that can be related to delayed onset focal or macro-reentry tachycardia during the course of their disease ... A high percentage of ...

Figure 2. One-year arrhythmia-free survival based on response to noninvasive programmed stimulation (NIPS) performed 1 to 7 d after ventricular tachycardia ablation. Data from Frankel et al. 38 Figure ...