Items Tagged ‘heartbeat’

March 13, 2012

New Therapy Freezes Out Atrial Fibrillation

By Stacy Theobald

Rosalee Johns says she has her life back thanks to a freezing therapy called cryoablation that restored her heartbeat to normal. In 2008, Johns, then age 67, was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the atria — the upper chambers of the heart — receive irregular electrical impulses that cause erratic heartbeats. Johns’ […]

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