In patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing initial catheter ablation, the addition of left atrial appendage (LAA) ligation with the Lariat system (AtriCure) did not improve ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SentreHEART, Inc., announced it has successfully completed nine First-In-Human procedures utilizing the LARIAT® with EpiRAIL™ at John Paul II hospital in Krakow, ...

Patients in northeast Georgia living with atrial fibrillation may be able to reduce their risk of stroke thanks to a new procedure being offered at Athens Regional Medical Center. Sixty-eight year-old ...

Matthew J. Price, MD, of the Scripps Clinic (La Jolla, CA), and colleagues retrospectively studied 154 A-fib patients (average age 72.1 years; 38% women) who underwent LAA ligation with the Lariat ...

Shannon Dickson couldn’t get the words out of his mouth. On a Saturday morning, the retired engineer was at home in Sedona, Ariz., trying to talk to his wife on the phone. Dickson knew what he wanted ...

DETROIT, MI – A team of heart doctors at Henry Ford Hospital is the first in Michigan to perform a new catheter-based procedure that limits the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation who ...

A new, minimally invasive procedure for atrial fibrillation (AF) patients who are intolerant of blood-thinning medications is now available. Atrial fibrillation is a heart disorder that affects nearly ...

Methodist Sugar Land is the first hospital in Fort Bend County to offer the LARIAT procedure to treat patients who have atrial fibrillation and are at increased risk of stroke. The LARIAT procedure is ...

A new nonsurgical technique called the LARIAT Suture Delivery Device is now in use to treat patients with atrial fibrillation, or A-Fib, who cannot tolerate blood thinning medication. A-Fib is the ...

Not long after the FDA approved the Lariat as a mere suture device, its maker, SentreHEART, filed for a patent to use it as a novel way to close the left atrial appendage (LAA). [1] At the time of the ...

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - A procedure at Willis-Knighton claims to greatly reduce the risk of stroke for people with atrial fibrillation. AFib, as it is more commonly known, is an irregular heart rate ...