Lupus is an inflammatory, autoimmune disease that can affect many of your organs, especially the heart. Abnormal heart rhythms, called arrhythmias, are among the potential cardiac complications of ...

Atrial fibrillation, a type of heart arrhythmia, is a leading cause of stroke. Additionally, strokes may be associated with arrhythmia onset. However, such arrhythmias tend to resolve within a few ...

Experts discuss how arrhythmia evaluation is tailored based on symptom frequency, severity, and patient risk, using a stepwise approach from short-term to extended monitoring to guide timely and ...

An arrhythmia is an atypical heartbeat that is either much faster or slower than expected. Your heartbeat may be described as chaotic, rather than steady and predictable. There are several types of ...

A heart arrhythmia is when your heart beats too fast, too slow, or out of sync. Some arrhythmias can be genetic. A genetic arrhythmia happens when one or both of your parents pass down a gene change ...

Data collection and analysis were performed with the approval of the Institutional Review Board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. Protected health information was coded in ...

The human heart beats roughly 3 billion times during the course of an average lifetime. Every single time it beats, blood is drawn into its two upper chambers, held there briefly by a network of ...

By: Holy Name Medical Center Holy Name Medical Center cardiac electrophysiologist Shalin Desai, MD, discusses a patient’s EKG with her. Credit: Courtesy Holy Name Medical Center Most people know the ...