ISTANBUL, Turkey — For patients with cryptogenic stroke, larger left atrial volume is a strong predictor that atrial fibrillation (AF) is the underlying cause, a new study suggests. This sign can be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with atrial fibrillation are more likely to have enlarged left atrial diameter, and patients with atrial ...

Idiopathic premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) may cause subtle changes in left atrium (LA) structure and function. The authors of an article published in Cardiovascular Innovations and ...

Aside from aging itself, obesity appears to be the most powerful predictor of left atrial enlargement, upping one's risk of atrial fibrillation (the most common type of arrhythmia), stroke and death, ...

More than half of the patients who have suffered a stroke with no well-defined aetiology have an enlarged left atrial appendage of the heart, according to a study. The results indicate that the ...

Left atrial enlargement refers to dilation of the left atrium which occurs from multiple disease states that can chronically increase the left atrial pressure. These include congestive heart failure, ...

Researchers have identified that enlargement of the left atrium of the heart is linked to abnormal activity of molecules that are associated with adverse changes in the heart's size, shape, structure, ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA — A third of older patients with no atrial fibrillation (AF) symptoms with a high risk for stroke (a high CHA 2 DS 2-VASc score) and for AF (an enlarged left atrium) had short episodes ...

See related research article by Bouzas-Mosquera and colleagues on page E657 and at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.091688. Although there are a variety of ...

We examined the association between three indices of arterial wall stiffness (office pulse pressure, pulse wave velocity, pressure strain modulus) and left atrial enlargement in 54 non-dipper and 36 ...