RACINE, WI — September is National AFib (atrial fibrillation) Month, and understanding its symptoms and risks can help with prevention. Atrial fibrillation causes a quivering or irregular heartbeat.

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a condition of the heart where faulty electrical signals cause it to flutter or beat too fast. It raises your chances of a stroke and other heart problems.

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a fast and irregular heart rhythm that, left untreated, can lead to blood clots, stroke and heart failure. It's the most common type of arrhythmia, a potentially ...

Stroke Prevention Using the Oral Thrombin Inhibitor Ximelagatran in Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation V – SPORTIF V. Program and abstracts from the American Heart Association ...

The Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) III (open-label, N = 3407) and V trials (double-blind, N = 3922) were designed for pooled analysis, and the ...

AFib is an unorganized, chaotic rhythm that originates from the pulmonary veins in the left atrium (the heart’s top left chamber). The cells in the pulmonary veins ordinarily do not have any ...

At least 3 million to 6 million people have atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib.It’s one of the most common types of arrhythmia, or irregular heart rhythm. And experts estimate the condition ...

Valvular atrial fibrillation (A-fib) involves a condition that leads to an irregular or abnormal heart rhythm. This can increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular complications, such as stroke ...