Just 3.5mm long, the dissolvable device, developed for newborns with congenital heart defects, could make cardiac stimulation ...

Many older patients are unsuitable for conventional pacemakers due to limited venous access or a heightened risk of infection ...

The only effective treatment we have currently for their heart block is cardiac pacemaker implantation. The degree of heart disease must be weighed against the degree of other systemic disease ...

Background: Conduction disturbances requiring permanent pacemaker implantation after heart surgery occur in about 1.5% of patients. Early pacemaker implantation may reduce morbidity and ...

Bay Area doctors, researchers and advocates are speaking up and banding together as the Trump administration plans to slash medical and scientific research funding.

This means fewer complications, faster recovery, and a more comfortable experience for patients.

Abbott published findings from the AVEIR DR i2i study evaluating the company's novel dual-chamber leadless pacemaker (LP) ...

The National Heart Institute (IJN) has made medical history by becoming the first centre in South-east Asia to successfully ...

Laidler is now in nursing school to become a transplant nurse: "I have this new lease on life. I have this new heart. I want ...

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Dr. Jasvinder Sidhu, an electrophysiologist and cardiologist with DeTar Healthcare System, performed the first dual-chamber ...

A new pacemaker being tested in New Zealand could help patients with heart failure feel and move better. The device has been designed to copy the heart's natural rhythm, speeding up and slowing down ...