... Conway Regional Medical Center, who told her she had experienced a heart attack. She learned she had a blockage as well as an arrhythmia called atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the upper chamber of the heart beats abnormally and fast. On Wednesday ...

... overall health and well-being. Eruptions of anger at others have been shown, clearly, to increase the risk of heart arrhythmias, heart attacks and high blood pressure, says Dr. Douglas Russell, a Veterans Administration cardiologist who, in a 2003 ...

... blockage in three arteries. Surgery saved her life. That same year, Berry was diagnosed with Bypass Tachycardia complicated by Arrhythmia. She had spent her entire life suffering from unexplained fainting spells and exhaustion which were eventually tied to these ...

... and is generally caused by cardiac arrest. This can result from a single session of inhalant use. Inhalants can cause an arrhythmia in the heart, Moore said. Over time, inhalant use or abuse can damage the liver, kidney, lungs and brain, he added ...

... 79-year-old Broyles checked into the hospital Monday night after feeling unusual and the problem was diagnosed as heart arrhythmia. Broyles has been receiving treatment for the condition for more than 10 years, but was experiencing complications from ...

... morning in the hospital with no recall of collapsing, had suffered a heart attack but that diagnosis has been changed to arrhythmia, DeBriyn said from his home Thursday night. "They said my heartbeat is back to normal," DeBriyn said. "And I am cleared ...

... was diagnosed with ischemic heart disease and ventricular arrhythmias. And an "automatic internal cardioversion defibrillator" (AICD) was implanted to treat any further arrhythmia episodes. This device would detect any abnormal rhythms ...

... but instead replaces it with scar tissue. This reduces the heart's ability to pump and can lead to life-threatening arrhythmias. "We think there's a balance between scar formation and regeneration -- if you regenerate, you don't scar, but if ...

... device that automatically jump-starts a heart sliding into an arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat. Until now, most patients identified ... after cardiac arrest, only about 10 percent to 15 percent of arrhythmia victims. The Alternans test "has extraordinary potential ...

... points about obesity as an important health issue. On Sept. 1, 2000, my wife of 20 years died in her sleep of a fatal arrhythmia. "Reba" was 49 years old, the doting mother of two teen-aged boys, and possibly as much as 150 pounds overweight ...