Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide and prevalence is expected to continue rising at an exponential rate with an aging population and increasing rates of obesity and ...

Left atrial enlargement refers to dilation of the left atrium which occurs from multiple disease states that can chronically increase the left atrial pressure. These include congestive heart failure, ...

Left atrial enlargement (LAE) is a common feature of hypertensive heart disease 1, 2 and is present in ~30% of the population with arterial hypertension. 3, 4 Most previous studies concerning the ...

Aside from aging itself, obesity appears to be the most powerful predictor of left atrial enlargement, upping one's risk of atrial fibrillation (the most common type of arrhythmia), stroke and death, ...

Aside from aging itself, obesity appears to be the most powerful predictor of left atrial enlargement (LAE), upping one's risk of atrial fibrillation (the most common type of arrhythmia), stroke and ...

Speaking with heart wire, Mitchell explained that age, increased systolic blood pressure, hypertension, heart failure, valvular disease, MI, and obesity have all been identified as clinical risk ...

See related research article by Bouzas-Mosquera and colleagues on page E657 and at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.091688. Although there are a variety of ...

Sinus venous defects constitute approximately 2% of all atrial septal defects (ASD), and affect men and women equally. They are characterized by a free communication between the atria in the upper ...

Background: Limited data are available on the relation between left atrial size and outcome among patients referred for clinically indicated echocardiograms. Our aim was to assess the association of ...

Background: Atrial function is an integral part of cardiac function that is often neglected. The presence of left ventricule hypertrophy (LVH) due to arterial hypertension may impair atrial function.

Background Fabry disease (FD) is an X linked lysosomal disorder with ventricular myocardial involvement that drives morbidity and mortality. Early diagnosis of cardiac involvement can be difficult.

This paper presents serial cardiac-catheterization data showing spontaneous functional closure of large symptomatic defects in 3 infants. One had an associated moderate-sized patent ductus arteriosus ...