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Cardiovascular Health > Arrhythmia
The following information is about Arrhythmia.
Arrhythmia Defined
A generic term that refers to a change in the rate or rhythm of the heart. These changes may be a slowing of heart beats, or a rapid beating, or a brief pause of the heart beat, or irregular heart beats.
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Life-Saving Defibrillators Don't Diminish Quality Of Life
Published September 5, 2008, 5:14 am, Medical News Today
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) among patients with heart failure, and they do so without significantly altering a person's quality of life, say researchers from Duke University Medical Center.
Jordan Hospital fundraiser named in memory of Carver woman
Published September 4, 2008, 9:07 pm, The Brockton Enterprise
The Jordan Hospital Club has kicked off fundraising efforts for October’s “Kayla’s Beat Goes On!” a 5K walk-run, to benefit cardiovascular services at Jordan Hospital.
Catheter Ablation System For Atrial Fibrillation Shows Reduced Procedure Time, Remarkable Safety Profile And Excellent ...
Published September 4, 2008, 3:12 am, Medical News Today
Ablation Frontiers, Inc., announced that two important studies, involving its innovative atrial fibrillation ablation products were presented by Dr. Lucas Boersma of the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress.
Further Analysis From ATHENA Study Showed That Multaq(R)(Dronedarone) Reduced The Risk Of Stroke In Patients With ...
Published September 4, 2008, 3:10 am, Medical News Today
This Analysis Showed That Multaq(R) (Dronedarone) Decreased the Risk of Stroke by 34% in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter Already Adequately Treated by Antithrombotic Therapy The results of a post-hoc analysis of the data from the ATHENA study were presented
Breakthrough drug could cut risk of stroke by a third in 700,000 irregular heartbeat sufferers
Published September 3, 2008, 8:10 pm, Daily Mail
Thousands of lives could be saved using a new drug which cuts deaths from a common heart rhythm disorder by almost a third.
London News and Reviews
Published September 3, 2008, 5:56 pm, Evening Standard
Tens of thousands of strokes could be prevented each year in patients with a common heart rhythm disorder, say researchers. Findings from the largest trial of its kind show that Multaq reduced the chances of stroke by more than a third in those with atrial fibrillation.
Further Analysis From The ATHENA Study Showed That Multaq® (dronedarone) Reduced The Risk Of Stroke In Patients With ...
Published September 3, 2008, 6:10 am, Medical News Today
The results of a post-hoc analysis of the data from the ATHENA study were presented today at the clinical trial update session of the European Society of Cardiology congress 2008, in Munich, Germany.
My Pharmiweb.com
Published September 3, 2008, 1:24 am, PharmiWeb
Munich, Germany- Sept 3rd, 2008 The results of a post-hoc analysis of the data from the ATHENA study were presented today at the clinical trial update session of the European Society of Cardiology congress 2008, in Munich, Germany.
Further Analysis from ATHENA Study Showed That Multaq(R) (Dronedarone) Reduced the Risk of Stroke in Patients With ...
Published September 3, 2008, 12:17 am, Thaipr.net
- This Analysis Showed That Multaq(R) (dronedarone) Decreased the Risk of Stroke by 34% in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter Already Adequately Treated by Antithrombotic Therapy
Further Analysis From ATHENA Study Showed That Multaq(R)(Dronedarone) Reduced the Risk of Stroke in Patients With ...
Published September 2, 2008, 11:30 pm, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
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Off-site Arrhythmia Links, User Submitted
The following links have been collected through user bookmark submission in the Arrhythmia category. Please note, because these resources are off-site we cannot guarantee the accuracy or quality of any information.
Sun Aug 24
- Cardiac arrhythmia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Heart Disease Help - Forums and Discussions - MedHelp: This forum is for questions and support regarding heart issues such as: Angina, Angioplasty, Arrhythmia, Bypass Surgery, Cardiomyopathy , Coronary Artery Disease, Defibrillator, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Mitral Valve, Pacemaker, PAD, Stenosis, Stress Tests
Mon Aug 11
- Conductive Bridges in Cardiac Tissue: A Beneficial Role or an Arrhythmogenic Substrate? -- Rudy 94 (6): 709 -- Circulation Research
- Natural Remedies for Arrhythmia
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- Sodium Channel Block With Mexiletine Is Effective in Reducing Dispersion of Repolarization and Preventing Torsade de Pointes in LQT2 and LQT3 Models of the Long-QT Syndrome -- Shimizu and Antzelevitch 96 (6): 2038 -- Circulation: Our results suggest that although pacing and sodium channel block are very effective in abbreviating the QT interval and TDR in LQT3, these therapeutic approaches may also be valuable in reducing the incidence of arrhythmogenes is in LQT2.
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- Pause induced early afterdepolariz ations in the long QT syndrome: a simulation study -- Viswanathan and Rudy 42 (2): 530 -- Cardiovascular Research: ... EADs preferentially in M cells suggests a possible role for these cells in the generation of arrhythmias that are associated with abnormalities of repolarization (e.g., TdP). The ionic mechanism of pause...
- A dynamic model of the cardiac ventricular action potential. I. Simulations of ionic currents and concentration changes -- Luo and Rudy 74 (6): 1071 -- Circulation Research: A mathematical model of the cardiac ventricular action potential is presented. The model presented here for the mammalian ventricular action potential is based mostly on the guinea pig ventricular cell.
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