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- noun medicine
atrial fibrillation
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Examples
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Catheter ablation and drugs are the most common treatments for a-fib.
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Medtronic estimates that the treatment of a-fib will be a $2 billion business by 2012, and that it's growing at a rate of about 20% annually.
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Atrial fibrillation, or "a-fib," is the most common type of serious heart arrhythmia.
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Sufferers can be highly productive, even athletic (basketball legends Jerry West and Bill Bradley both had a-fib).
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That circular lesion blocks errant electricity, theoretically stopping the a-fib.
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All such patients have a long-term stroke risk, because a-fib often leads to a pooling of blood in the heart.
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Some 70% of the device patients had their a-fib disappear after a year, versus 7% of the drug group.
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In one 245-person trial of a Medtronic ablation device, 70% of patients who received ablation went a year without an a-fib episode, compared with 7% of those on drugs.
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Needs a bit of evaluation for his a-fib, but once everything checks out and is stable, he's good to go.
Clear That Patient! 1 Dinosaur 2009
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B: No way take care of it after the a-fib is controlled
Clear That Patient! 1 Dinosaur 2009
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