Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared at drjohnm.org. The purpose of this post is to clarify important issues about cardiac devices as they relate to deactivation. As I wrote yesterday, Paula ...

The rate of major complications associated with cardiac implantable electronic-device (CIED) implantation varied widely among different centers in recent data from Australia and New Zealand. The rate ...

Looking at a large cohort of patients undergoing various types of open heart surgery, investigators have provided contemporary data that can be used to inform patients about the risks of cardiac ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Christian Eriksen's soccer career could be saved by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator or ICD, a small battery-powered device to regulate his heartbeat following a ...

The Cleveland Clinic announced their team successfully implanted the world's first leadless pacemaker defibrillator system in two patients. Pacemakers provide electrical stimulation to regulate a ...

The authors report a case of S-ICD implantation in a patient with ccTGA and a DDD pacemaker. The patient was a 30-year-old man with a previously placed pacemaker with diagnoses of congenital heart ...

Advertising Changes After Drug Switch to Over-the-Counter For patients undergoing pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator surgery, the incidence of clinically significant pocket-device ...

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BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIOTRONIK a leading manufacturer of innovative medical technology, announced today the first implantation of the new Lumax 740 ICD (implantable cardiac defibrillator) in Hong ...