Now atrial fibrillation is much faster than atrial flutter, and it's also much more chaotic than atrial flutter. So typically atrial fibrillation will cause an irregular heart beat.

When a person with AFib or atrial flutter experiences an episode, the heart may beat as many as 300 times per minute or more in the upper heart chambers and 100-200 times per minute in the lower heart ...

For one, Afib patients had more ischemic strokes and heart failure hospitalizations than did the atrial flutter cohort at a CHA 2 DS 2 -VASc score of 1 or higher, but the incidence of all-cause ...

Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter are common and are associated with worse outcomes, according to findings presented at the virtual American Heart ...

Although patients with A-fib and those with atrial flutter (AFL) are generally managed by clinicians in much the same way for stroke prevention, new data suggest that a common risk score used for both ...

Dronedarone was associated with lower incidence of permanent atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter, more return to permanent sinus rhythm and lower AF/atrial flutter burden vs. placebo, according to ...