Jim Harbaugh told reporters Tuesday he had two successful surgeries during the 2025 NFL offseason. One was a hip replacement; the other was a cardiac ablation done after the 61-year-old coach ...

Arrhythmia radiofrequency ablation is a procedure to destroy cells that cause heart arrhythmias. An arrhythmia is an irregular heart rate, such as a very fast heartbeat or a heartbeat that does not ...

Nerve ablation, also called radiofrequency ablation, is a procedure that helps relieve chronic pain—one of the most challenging conditions to treat. About 84% of adults in the United States suffer ...

If medications and lifestyle changes are still not improving your atrial fibrillation symptoms, it may be time to consider a surgical option. Cardiovascular surgeon Jared Bunch, MD, discusses cardiac ...

(UPDATED) The risk of death following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation is higher than rates observed in randomized controlled trials, with the majority of deaths occurring not during the ...

Symptomatic but benign thyroid nodules treated with a single session of ultrasound-guided thermal ablation show reductions in volume that are sustained over the course of 5 years, with radiofrequency ...

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.

The heart is at the center of a complex electrical system. Just like any machine, sometimes the system does not always work correctly. There may be a short circuit. This could lead to an abnormal or ...

LISBON, Portugal—Ablation of paroxysmal A-fib using a cryoballoon cuts down on the need for patients to receive hospital-based care compared with antiarrhythmic drug therapy even if the procedure is ...

Obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation are two conditions that share a potentially deadly link. Having one increases ...

Extending Medicare reimbursement for cardiac catheter ablation to settings outside the hospital is expected to boost ...

The Vanquish device’s clinical data demonstrated an elimination of MRI visible intermediate risk disease in 91% of patients ...