Cardiac ablation—also called catheter ablation—is a procedure doctors use to treat irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias. During cardiac ablation, doctors insert a thin tube called a catheter into your ...

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A catheter is a long, flexible tube that a doctor inserts into a blood vessel and then guides into your heart. Catheter ablation is a way to treat irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias, like atrial ...

Your cardiologist may recommend a cardiac ablation if you have an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). The procedure sends heat or cold through thin, flexible wires (catheters) to the damaged heart ...

Some people experience leg pain after a heart ablation procedure at the insertion site of the catheter. Alternatively, they may have an allergic reaction to the medication they receive alongside the ...

Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) announced recently that it received CE mark for its Farapoint pulsed field ablation (PFA) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An all-in-one ablation system showed durable pulmonary vein isolation at 1 year. Three-quarters of patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with obesity and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation was the best strategy to prevent AF ...

This procedure uses energy to make small scars in your heart tissue. These scars stop unusual electrical signals that move through your heart and cause an uneven heartbeat (your doctor might call it ...