If you feel like your heart occasionally skips a beat, you could actually be having an extra heartbeat. One condition that causes this extra beat is premature atrial contractions.

Just a dozen patients have undergone the new treatment that uses electrical pulses to target problem areas inside the heart.

DEAR DR. ROACH: What’s the difference between atrial fibrillation and premature ventricular contractions, aka PVCs (extra heartbeats)? -- M. ANSWER: Both AFib and PVCs are rhythm disturbances of ...

Premature ventricular contractions are a risk factor for heart failure. Premature ventricular contractions may be a modifiable risk factor for heart failure and death. Premature ventricular ...

A couple of neat Apple Watch stories popped up on Reddit recently. One user shared how his Apple Watch Series 4 caught a premature ventricular contraction and was able to quickly share the results ...

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The regular arrhythmia occurring at the beginning of the electrocardiogram was identified as ventricular bigeminy. Single ventricular premature complexes (VPCs), as well as pairs and triplets of ...

The research team quantified premature atrial contractions (PACs) and premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) in the 1414 individuals who were randomly assigned to have 24-hour Holter monitors.

ATHENS, GREECE — Suppression of frequent premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) in patients with systolic heart failure could help raise LV contractile function enough possibly to make a ...

Common extra heartbeats known as premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) may be a modifiable risk factor for congestive heart failure (CHF) and death, according to researchers at UC San Francisco.