Doctors & patients are saying about 'A-Fib.com'...

"A-Fib.com is a great web site for patients, that is unequaled by anything else out there."

Dr. Douglas L. Packer, MD, FHRS, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

"Jill and I put you and your work in our prayers every night. What you do to help people through this [A-Fib] process is really incredible."

Jill and Steve Douglas, East Troy, WI

“I really appreciate all the information on your website as it allows me to be a better informed patient and to know what questions to ask my EP.

Faye Spencer, Boise, ID, April 2017

“I think your site has helped a lot of patients.”

Dr. Hugh G. Calkins, MD Johns Hopkins,
Baltimore, MD

Doctors & patients are saying about 'Beat Your A-Fib'...

"If I had [your book] 10 years ago, it would have saved me 8 years of hell.”

Roy Salmon, Patient, A-Fib Free,
Adelaide, Australia

"This book is incredibly complete and easy-to-understand for anybody. I certainly recommend it for patients who want to know more about atrial fibrillation than what they will learn from doctors...."

Pierre Jaïs, M.D. Professor of Cardiology, Haut-Lévêque Hospital, Bordeaux, France

"Dear Steve, I saw a patient this morning with your book [in hand] and highlights throughout. She loves it and finds it very useful to help her in dealing with atrial fibrillation."

Dr. Wilber Su,
Cavanaugh Heart Center, Phoenix, AZ

"...masterful. You managed to combine an encyclopedic compilation of information with the simplicity of presentation that enhances the delivery of the information to the reader. This is not an easy thing to do, but you have been very, very successful at it."

Ira David Levin, heart patient,
Rome, Italy

"Within the pages of Beat Your A-Fib, Dr. Steve Ryan, PhD, provides a comprehensive guide for persons seeking to find a cure for their Atrial Fibrillation."

Walter Kerwin, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

2017 AF Symposium LIVE VIDEO: Can Adding Fibrosis Improve Ablation Success?

Published March 8, 2017

Updated March 9: We added two new slides comparing the patient’s initial and subsequent DE-MRI images.

Report 13 from 2107 AF Symposium: In a live ablation from from Mass. General Hospital in Boston, Drs. Heist and Van Houzen demonstrated a pioneering strategy to treat Atrial Fibrillation patients with patchy fibrotic areas of tissue. This tissue perpetuates A-Fib.

First, a DE-MRI scan defines and measures the heart’s areas of fibrosis. Next, the doctors ablated (or filled in) these patchy areas with more fibrosis (i.e. ablation scarring) turning the patchy areas into dense fibrotic areas. Transforming patchy fibrotic tissue to dense fibrotic tissue stops A-Fib signals from perpetuating in that tissue.

It may seem counter-intuitive―create more fibrosis to make patients A-Fib free. Read more about this innovative strategy.