POSTS TAGGED AS atrial fibrillation

Large Smartwatch Trial in China Supports Afib Monitoring

Smartwatch app detects Afib in large Chinese study
“A truly massive screening study in China spanning more than 2.8 million participants [MORE]

It’s Not Just Your Morning Weigh-in Anymore

Body Scan scale measures the composition of body parts
“Over five years after the release of the Body Cardio (and one [MORE]

Quantum Imaging Diagnostics

Heart conduction system
From scientists at University College London: “Surgery to treat atrial fibrillation effectively cuts the wires to prevent a [MORE]

Patient-Specific Heart Mapping Sensors

Mapping catheter for identifying source of AF
To treat atrial fibrillation, interventional cardiologists need to know where aberrant electrical signals are [MORE]

Implantable Heart Monitor with Smartphone App

Implantable heart monitor
Last year, when Abbott Laboratories acquired St. Jude Medical it picked up an implantable heart monitor which already [MORE]

Smartphone Add on Cardiac Monitor

Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor
Last year, when Abbott Laboratories acquired St. Jude Medical one of products in the deal was [MORE]

Smartphone Enabled Atrial Fibrillation Monitoring by Facial Skin Tone

Atrial Fibrillation
Wilhem Einthoven’s first electrocardiograph in 1903 required five operators, weighed nearly 600 lbs., and required that the patient have [MORE]

“Atrial 4-D Flow CMR”

Cardiac Imaging
Besides the unsettling fear from an irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation increases a patient’s stroke risk. To gage that risk, [MORE]

Fierce’s 15 Innovative Devices from 2013

Clearpath Ocular Glucose Monitor
This list included biomarkers for autism and thyroid cancer, devices to control hunger and deliver [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic’s “AtriClip”

Among the risks to atrial fibrillation patients is the possibility that blood will thicken and clot in the heart’s [MORE]

LifeWatch’s “Teleclinic”

Atrial Fibrillation
Three to five percent of Americans over age 65 have atrial fibrillation (2.2 million people) and some of [MORE]

Implant for Remote Heart Monitoring

On Feb. 16, Medtronic announced its new implantable heart monitor, “Reveal XT,” as part of its Care Link Network.  A [MORE]

Undersused CRT?

In an online article of the American Heart Association’s Circulation, researchers report that somewhere between 30% and 50% of cardiac [MORE]