Atrium Fibrillations

Atrium fibrillation is the most frequent cardiac arrhythmia of humans. Its occurrence significantly grows with age and at the age of 70 years it may reach as much as 15%. In the Czech Republic, approximately 100 thousand people suffer from this kind of arrhythmia. The affected people have, in addition to a lower quality of life, double the mortality rate from heart causes. Without treatment, they expose themselves to as much as five times higher risk of a cerebrovascular accident.
In our department, we treat the atrium fibrillation during a cardio-surgical intervention together with other heart disease, or by a new method, when we are able to execute a surgical intervention in a less invasive way without opening the chest. This method is suitable for patients with atrium fibrillation without other heart disease