Items Tagged ‘irregular heart rhythm’
March 17, 2010
Freezing, Medicating Away a Dangerous Irregular Heart Rhythm
New data presented at a major cardiology meeting Monday brought mostly good news on atrial fibrillation, the potentially dangerous abnormal heartbeat that afflicts more than 2 million Americans… One trial described by researcher Dr. Douglas L. Packer, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., used a cryogenic — frozen-tip — catheter to […]