CHICAGO — A healthy heart beats up to 100 times a minute, but if that increases or decreases, you may suffer from a heart arrhythmia, caused by breakdowns in the electrical pathways of the heart.

Traditional methods to treat cardiac arrhythmias typically see cardiologists inserting a catheter into the heart to measure electrical impulses and determine where in the tissue the abnormal rhythm is ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - 1 in 18 people in the US have a heart arrhythmia. A study suggests that 1 in 4 adults over the age of 40 could develop an irregular heartbeat. A healthy heart beats up to 100 ...

A new way of treating arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation (AF) - the most common heart arrhythmia diagnosis in clinical practice - has debuted at UC San Diego Health. vMap is a non-invasive, ...

No two hearts beat alike. The size and shape of the the heart can vary from one person to the next. These differences can be particularly pronounced for people living with heart disease, as their ...

To treat a persistent arrhythmia, surgeons need to know more than just that the heart’s beats are out of sync—they need a map of the cardiac muscle’s electrical activity to see exactly where things ...

Modelling the heart in 3D using combined imaging techniques can help predict heart rhythm abnormalities, or arrhythmias, in patients with the genetic heart disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

This new imaging technique, when applied to humans, could both improve our understanding of the circulatory system (veins, ...