This content is provided by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Surgically implanted cardiac devices are quite common with more than one million cardiac pacemakers implanted every year worldwide – ...

The vast majority of Medicare beneficiaries with infection of a cardiac implanted electronic device (CIED) don’t have their hardware removed within 30 days, contrary to guideline recommendations, and ...

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Less than one out of every eight patients with infective endocarditis and a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) underwent recommended transvenous lead removal/extraction over a recent 4-year ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Xcardia Innovation Ltd., following the February FDA 510(k) clearance of its device for cardiac pacemaker and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, whose work showed how to extract faulty cardiac device leads safely, has died. Wilkoff, ...

In patients with vegetative endocarditis related to cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), extracting the lead along with percutaneous mechanical debulking via vacuum aspiration of ...