A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...

Background: Several clinical factors have been studied to predict atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after electrical cardioversion (ECV) with limited predictive value. Methods: A method able to ...

Electric cardioversion is far less invasive. It uses quick, low-energy electric shocks applied to the chest to revert the heart back into a regular rhythm. Chemical or pharmacological cardioversion ...

All the selected patients for the study were under antiarrhythmic drug treatment (amiodarone 200 mg/day) before the procedure and during the whole follow-up after ECV. Moreover, all of them were also ...