Left atrial enlargement is often present in people with high blood pressure. A review of 15 studies over the last 12 years found that left atrial enlargement is present in 16 to 83 percent of ...

Left atrial enlargement (LAE) is when the left side of the heart enlarges or swells, leading to breathlessness, fatigue, and other symptoms. It often affects people with high blood pressure and ...

When left atrial enlargement occurs, it takes longer for cardiac action potentials to travel through the atrial myocardium; thus, the P wave also lengthens. Therefore, the criteria for diagnosing ...

Left atrial enlargement can be diagnosed on the ECG or via echocardiography. When left atrial enlargement occurs, it takes longer for cardiac action potentials to travel through the atrial ...

Left atrial enlargement also might be a marker for other conditions that could increase stroke risk. For example, left atrial dysfunction can occur in patients with a patent foramen ovale.8 Patent ...

Obesity and hypertension were major independent risk factors for left atrial enlargement (itself a risk factor for atrial fibrillation) in an observational, population-based study, but obesity was ...

Aside from aging itself, obesity appears to be the most powerful predictor of left atrial enlargement (LAE), upping one's risk of atrial fibrillation (the most common type of arrhythmia), stroke ...

In patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), standard treatment with pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) ablation resulted in similar outcomes to more extensive ablation in other areas of the ...

Of these, 343 (25.5%) patients (average age 74; 49% female) were found to have left atrial LVAs (that covered ≥ 5cm² of left atrial surface), and were randomised in a 1:1 ratio to receive ...

Kuopio, Finland - Finnish researchers say left atrium (LA) size as detected by transthoracic echocardiography may be an important predictor of cardiovascular disease deaths in middle-aged men [1 ...