{}An estimated 2.7 million Americans live with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that can lead to life threatening complications. When medicine doesn't work, their condition can seem ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG – After four days of testimony, a Blair County jury found no fault with an Altoona surgeon’s treatment of a Bellefonte man whose health remains impaired since a 2010 surgery for an ...

There's a new surgery to correct irregular heart rhythms and it's less invasive than open heart surgery. It also appears to have a higher success rate. It's called "mini-maze" surgery. Here's how it ...

If you stacked all of the steps that Pete Fenboque has climbed in and out of school buses, you’d reach astonishing heights. After all, he’s spent the last 27 years driving a bus and training new ...

Heart surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have helped usher in a new era in the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. Using radiofrequency devices -- rather than a ...

St Louis, MO - The addition of bipolar radiofrequency ablation to the Cox-maze III procedure can be used to replace some of the surgical incisions made in the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), ...

A doctor may recommend surgery for arrhythmia when medications and lifestyle changes haven’t been effective. The different types of arrhythmia surgeries each aim to restore a regular heart rhythm.

Maze surgery, or surgical ablation, is a procedure commonly recommended to treat an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) when other methods such as medication, cardioversion therapy (electric ...

The field of atrial fibrillation is evolving rapidly. Although a medical rhythm control strategy has not proven to be beneficial for survival, new interventional therapies have improved the rate of ...