An Echocardiogram (or cardiac ultrasound) is an ultrasound of the heart used to measures blood flow through the heart, heart valve structure, and heart wall function.
The WATCHMAN™ left atrial appendage (LAA) closure implant is a permanent heart implant used to treat atrial fibrillation (afib) not caused by a heart valve problem.
Roger Parr was shocked to learn the dizziness he experienced while standing and walking over the course of a week were signs of mini strokes taking place in his brain. “I’d had a couple of heart attacks before and I knew that wasn’t what was going on, but I sure didn’t think it could be a stroke,” Roger said. A trip to the emergency room in his hometown of Sault Sainte Marie led to testing, consultation between physicians, and then his family. This resulted in the decision to transfer him to McLaren Fli...
McLaren Flint, the region’s leading comprehensive cardiovascular program, is the first program in Mid-Michigan to offer the FARAPULSE™ Pulse Field Ablation System (PFA), a unique and advanced technology for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), also known as AFib, a leading cause of stroke. An irregular heart rhythm caused by abnormal electrical impulses, the traditional treatment of AFib was the destruction of specific heart tissue through either a thermal (heat) ablation or cryo (co...
If you are experiencing episodes of a racing heart or extreme fluttering, you could have a serious condition called atrial fibrillation, which is often referred to as AFib. Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of treated heart arrhythmia. An arrhythmia is when the heart beats too slowly, too fast, or in an irregular way. When a person has AFib, the normal beating in the upper chambers of the heart is irregular, and blood doesn’t flow as well as it should from the atria to the lower chambers of th...