A catheter is a long, flexible tube that a doctor inserts into a blood vessel and then guides into your heart. Catheter ablation is a way to treat irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias, like atrial ...

After approval in late 2024, Johnson & Johnson's Varipulse PFA system started 2025 on the wrong foot: Its early rollout had ...

Cardiac ablation—also called catheter ablation—is a procedure doctors use to treat irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias. During cardiac ablation, doctors insert a thin tube called a catheter into your ...

Congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation often coexist, and each adversely affects the other with respect to management and prognosis. We prospectively evaluated the effect of catheter ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An all-in-one ablation system showed durable pulmonary vein isolation at 1 year. Three-quarters of patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AF ablation with a novel contact force-sensing pulsed field catheter was safe and acutely effective. Three-month ...

LONDON, England—The impact of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI)—the mainstay of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF)—should not be attributed to placebo effects, according to the SHAM-PVI trial ...

Compared with medical therapy, rhythm control with catheter ablation is associated with lower risk of ischemic stroke after 30 days, as well as less mortality and heart failure (HF) hospitalization, ...

This procedure uses energy to make small scars in your heart tissue. These scars stop unusual electrical signals that move through your heart and cause an uneven heartbeat (your doctor might call it ...