Gary Carmack
Typical symptoms of atrial fibrillation (A-Fib) include feelings of weakness and faintness and irregular heart beats called palpitations. The person also might suffer from breathlessness. The other symptoms are ominous, those of a stroke. One of the scary consequences of a-fib is the possibility of a stroke. This is caused by a blood clot (embolus) breaking loose in the heart and traveling to the brain causing a stroke. Because of this, physicians will usually be quite aggressive in thinning the blood while controlling the a-fib — hopefully preventing a stroke from occurring.
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