A left atrial appendage closure is a procedure your doctor may recommend if: you have atrial fibrillation (also known as AF or AFib) or you are not a good candidate for taking blood thinner medication ...

Columbus Regional Health began offering the innovative Watchman procedure in 2022. The team is led by cardiologist and electrophysiologist Dr. Albert Sey.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute became the first in the world to implant Medtronic’s Penditure left atrial appendage exclusion system through a minimally ...

CHICAGO -- For patients at high risk of stroke who underwent catheter-based atrial fibrillation ablation, left atrial appendage closure led to less bleeding compared with oral anticoagulation, the ...

DETROIT (June 30, 2022) – Findings of a Henry Ford Health study published in the Journal of American Heart Association from researchers in the Center for Structural Heart Disease (Division of ...

Created to address the “uncertainty and practice variation” that surrounds transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO), the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the ...

During February's "American Heart Month," doctors at Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) in Lewiston, are raising awareness about two procedures they can now perform to help people with atrial ...

Convergent hybrid ablation is an innovative treatment for a type of irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AFib). The treatment is a two-stage procedure that combines the expertise of our ...

More people have atrial fibrillation (AFib) than any other kind of irregular heartbeat. And the numbers are only expected to go up as people live longer with heart conditions that go along with it.