The woman who had no concerning medical history was in for a shock when doctors found a tumor inside her heart.

The noninferiority trial of patients at risk for both bleeding and stroke, in a surprise turn, found standard care to be ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with atrial fibrillation and high risk for stroke and bleeding, left atrial appendage occlusion was ...

Future Cardiol. 2010;6(2):181-193. Myxomas are mainly located in the atria (75% in the left and 15–20% in the right) and are attached to the atrial septum, usually in the region of the rim of the ...

A liquid injected into the heart that sets like a gel could one day prevent strokes caused by atrial fibrillation, animal tests suggest.

Left atrial appendage occlusion is a generally safe and effective procedure to lower the risk of stroke in people with atrial fibrillation. It closes or blocks off the left atrial appendage of the ...

A study published in Nature on March 4 and led by Prof. XU Tiantian's team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Prof. PAN Xiangbin's ...

The current bias of medicine is strong. When we are in doubt, when evidence is sparse, doctors do more, not less. Internists prescribe, cardiologists implant, surgeons cut. We know what we know. So it ...