AI helps detect atrial fibrillation cheaply and reliably
A startling new study from Mayo Clinic shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can help pick up the earliest signs of the potentially fatal irregularity in heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF) on electrocardiography (EKG)– even when the heart rhythm is perfectly normal at the time of testing.
This means that AI can help the physician detect asymptomatic AF in the recent past, or warn of AF that is about to happen. This could help treat such patients at the point of care, potentially avoiding a host of devastating complications like clots forming within the heart and then traveling to the brain or the lung. These traveling clots could cause strokes and lung embolism respectively. The outcome can be heart failure and even death.
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