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Atrial Fibrillation

September is Atrial Fibrillation Month

September 3, 2008

September has been declared Atrial Fibrillation
Month to raise awareness of this life-threatening heart condition. Embrace Your Heart’s Medical Interpreter and founder of the patient resource StopAfib.org Mellanie True Hills, provides some great information:
Commonly known as afib, atrial fibrillation is a misfiring of the electrical signals of the heart involving rapid or irregular heartbeats or quivering [...]

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Announcing the Patient’s Perspective on Women Living With Atrial Fibrillation

December 11, 2007

Visit The Patient’s Perspective page on the Embrace Your Heart Website to download the latest Patient’s Perspective Magazine edition: Women Living With Atrial Fibrillation or listen to the recorded teleconference.
The Atrial Fibrillation edition was produce in collaboration with the patient resource StopAfib.org and its founder Mellanie True Hills.
Visit the Patient’s Perspective Archive to [...]

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Do You Have Atrial Fibrillation? How Would You Know?

December 11, 2007

Mellanie True Hills felt as if her heart was jumping out of her chest. Patty Borkowski didn’t have any symptoms at all. How would you know if you have the most common irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation?
Atrial Fibrillation causes the upper chambers of the heart to quiver, which can cause the heart to overwork itself and [...]

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Are You Just A Hysterical Female? The Emotional Toll of Atrial Fibrillation

December 11, 2007

Fear is common for heart disease survivors, but for women diagnosed with atrial fibrillation the fear can be overwhelming.
“You are scared, your family is scared, and you just don’t know if something else is going to happen,” explains Mellanie True Hills, founder of the American Foundation for Women’s Health and the atrial fibrillation patient resource [...]

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What Trips Your Trigger? Managing Your Afib By Understanding Your Triggers

December 11, 2007

Understanding what triggers your atrial fibrillation episodes can help keep them under control. “We are in our infancy in learning what causes and what triggers afib,” explains Mellanie True Hills, founder of the American Foundation for Women’s Health and the atrial fibrillation patient resource StopAfib.org. But paying attention to your body [...]

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Exploring Other Options: Catheter and Surgical Ablation

December 11, 2007

Medication cannot cure atrial fibrillation. For those looking for a cure, Mellanie True Hills, Founder of the American Foundation for Women’s Health and the patient’s resource StopAfib.org, suggest discussing the following options with your doctor. (Information courtesy of StopAfib.org)
Catheter Ablation is done by an electrophysiologist (a cardiologist specializing in heart rhythms) in [...]

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Go Buy A New Bra! … and other things a woman should do before a surgical ablation

December 11, 2007

So you’ve scheduled a surgical ablation to cure your atrial fibrillation, but do you know how to best prepare for the procedure?
Make time to do the following things before your surgery:
Go Buy A New Bra.
In fact, go buy a few. You will want to wash them often to be sure you are keeping your incision(s) [...]

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What’s In Your Wallet: Be prepared for injuries and emergencies

August 27, 2007

While blood thinning medication allows many women with heart disease to live productive lives, the risk of bleeding creates peril even from small cuts.
“I was told even shaving my legs was too risky while on Coumadin®,” Said Eliz Greene a heart attack survivor and host of the Patient’s Perspective Teleconference presented by the Embrace Your [...]

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