Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

Old” pacemakers may still work for years, so doctors are refurbishing used devices and donating them to patients in low- and middle-income countries.

It's been more than a decade since a man walked into a Michigan hospital and made the unusual request to donate his late wife's pacemaker. She had the brand new device implanted just a few months ...

Fiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove has had successful surgery to implant a removable heart starter device following his ...

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.

Medicare may cover pacemaker costs if the pacemaker is medically necessary and appropriate for a person’s treatment. The part of Medicare that covers pacemakers and their related costs will vary ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

A woman who has claimed she felt like she was being “being ripped open” and in pain during a day procedure to insert a ...