Background Cardiac surgery carries a heightened risk of bradyarrhythmias, but current permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation ...

A pacemaker is a small device that can send electrical signals to your heart. Here's who needs a pacemaker and how it works.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is beneficial in patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class III and IV heart failure and wide QRS duration, especially due to left bundle ...

Estimates suggest that around three million Americans are living with cardiac pacemakers, according to the American Heart Association. Now, thanks to MountainStar Healthcare, a new kind of pacemaker – ...

Heart problems are nothing new. Humans have been fascinated by electrocardiography since the era of Hippocrates (via St. Luke's Hospital Cardiology Department). With each passing century, medicine's ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reminding healthcare providers about the risk of major complications if cardiac perforation occurs during leadless pacemaker implantation. Cardiac ...

Conventional pacemakers, with their transvenous leads, have long been the standard of care globally, including in India.

A gym manager who survived a cardiac arrest has forged an extraordinary bond with one of his members after saving his life ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — After undergoing emergency surgery to implant a pacemaker, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 73, made a video appearance from a hospital near Tel Aviv. Wearing a crisp dark ...

At first Jessika Seward balked at getting a pacemaker because she thought they were just for old people. But when she realized there was no other way to treat her heart block, she readily agreed to ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/sjhm6j/cardiac_pacemaker) has announced the addition of the "Cardiac ...

More than 20 years ago, Terri Mattula's dog Gator passed out while her husband was walking him. They took Gator to the vet and learned he had a third-degree heart block and needed a pacemaker. However ...