Advances in surgery have significantly improved the short-term prognosis for patients with congenital heart disease. Nonetheless, at medium-term follow-up, arrhythmic death remains an important ...

Cambridge, UK - Reduced activity in the cardiac sodium channel appears to be responsible for several conduction defects that can cause various arrhythmias, a new study in mice shows. The findings, ...

New research highlights postnatal regeneration limits and pathological remodeling of the cardiac conduction system after myocardial infarction, uncovering mechanisms behind clinical arrhythmogenesis ...

Wide-QRS tachycardia should be presumed to be VT if the diagnosis is unclear (class I recommendation). Cardioversion is always indicated for episodes of sustained (more than 30 seconds or causing ...

Matteo Pasquali (left) and Mehdi Razavi check a thread of carbon nanotube fibre. They are using the fibres as electrical bridges to restore conductivity to damaged hearts. (Courtesy: Texas Heart ...