Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) has emerged as a non-invasive imaging modality that quantifies atrial deformation by tracking natural acoustic markers—“speckles”—within the myocardial wall. By ...

Findings from an echocardiographic study of patients with heart failure with preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction treated with an atrial shunt have shed more light on mechanisms that explain ...

A new study published in Frontiers of Medicine focuses on establishing normative values for left ventricular (LV) and left atrial (LA) size and function using three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) ...

An arrhythmia can be categorised depending on whether the heart is beating too fast, too slowly or abnormally.

Atrial fibrillation occurs when the upper heart chamber beats very fast and chaotic and causes an irregular heartbeat. The condition is common to people 65 and older. But new research on 67,000 people ...

Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with incident atrial fibrillation and adverse atrial remodeling; however, the effect of abstinence from alcohol on secondary prevention of atrial ...

September is recognized as National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about one of ...

Answer questions and review cases on these topics and more. A 42-year-old male with no past cardiovascular medical history comes to the ED with a complaint of shortness of breath and lower extremity ...