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Are you experiencing any kind of scary episodes where you are unable to catch your breath, feel dizzy, or lightheaded with extreme chest pain? If yes, maybe you are suffering from Atrial fibrillation. This is a condition wherein the patient suffers from the irregular heartbeats. There are mainly three types of AFib the paroxysmal, persistent and the chronic (permanent). In this blog, we will be dealing with the Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation.

Take Home: UMass Medical School and WPI have developed an app that can detect atrial fibrillation.  This moves connected and mobile health closer to reality.  The really important development with this approach might allow us to treat patients who have AF intermittently (paroxysmal) differently than we currently do.  Because we are worried about stroke, patients now get blood thinners all the time because we are concerned that they will have recurrences without knowing about it.  With this technology, in the future, we might see validation of a strategy that allows use of blood thinners when patients are in AF only, sometimes called a pill in the pocket.

Ruim één half miljoen landgenoten kampt geregeld met duizeligheid en ernstige evenwichtsstoornissen. Gelukkig is deze aandoening zéker niet levensbedreigend, maar wie er geregeld mee wordt geconfronteerd, moet wel heel wat aan levenskwaliteit inboeten. Wat zijn nu precies de oorzaken van deze aandoening en hoe kan er aan verholpen worden? Duizeligheid en evenwichtsstoornissen kunnen veroorzaakt worden door de ziekte van Ménière, door de ontsteking van de kanaaltjes van ons binnenoor en door BPPV, dat staat voor Benigine Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, dat meestal voorkomt op middelbare leeftijd.

Vertigo is not a disease rather a symptom. It gives false feelings of movement or spinning and it is associated with dizziness. Although, vertigo is a part of the dizziness but all dizziness is not vertigo. It occurs because of the disturbance of balance or equilibrium. When there is a sensation of movement, it is called subjective vertigo and perception of movement in objects is called objective vertigo.