Atrial flutter is similar to another type of arrhythmia called atrial fibrillation (AFib). Both start in the upper chambers of the heart and cause a fast heartbeat and increase your risk of stroke.

Differences While atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation are each conditions that involve the atria (the heart's upper chambers), there are some differences between the two conditions.

Having Heart Flutters? It May Be Atrial Fibrillation For most people, Atrial Fibrillation feels like the heart skips a beat, followed by a thud, with a fluttering or racing feeling afterwards.

Jim Harbaugh briefly left the Chargers vs. Broncos game in Week 6 because of a heart condition. Here's what to know about atrial flutter.

Jim Harbaugh briefly left the Chargers vs. Broncos game in Week 6 because of a heart condition. Here's what to know about atrial flutter.

Symptoms of atrial flutter can include shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain, heart palpitations or fluttering, dizziness or lightheadedness and fainting.

You can take heart (so to speak) in knowing that you’re not alone; about one-third of the American population experiences some form of atrial flutter or atrial fibrillation.

New-onset atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter are as common in hospitalized patients with influenza as with COVID-19, suggesting the connection between the arrhythmias and COVID-19 is related ...

While people with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter had worse outcomes than people without either, for some outcomes, risk varied by degree of CHA2DS2-VASc score, researchers reported in JAMA ...

Harbaugh said he had two other similar episodes, one in 1999 and one during a 2012 Monday Night Football game when he was coaching the 49ers. He had a heart procedure in 2012 to address the issue and ...