This device uses leads to stimulate both the right atrium, right ventricle, and the left ventricle to help improve the heart's pumping efficiency. This therapy is primarily designed for patients who ...

The FDA is boosting a recall effort from Boston Scientific regarding batteries potentially underpowering a number of the company’s implanted Accolade pacemakers, which may need to be replaced ...

Over time, this leads to changes in the heart muscle walls which can ultimately lead to heart failure. The regular checks currently carried out on patients with pacemakers – around 500,000 in ...

CHICAGO — One person’s used pacemaker is another person’s treasure. A program to refurbish used pacemakers could expand access to the lifesaving devices. In a clinical trial of nearly 300 ...

They communicate continuously with each other from different chambers using revolutionary implant-to-implant technology to sense and pace the heart. Ms Cooper said: "I had my first pacemaker ...

And when the line is that short or small between failure and success, every single – and I know I'm overstating this. I'm making this more dramatic than perhaps it is – but in many cases, there's this ...

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 ...

Fox News host Sean Hannity explains why he's grateful for President-elect Donald Trump's win in his opening monologue Tuesday on "Hannity." At the same time, Donald Trump is also promising to ...

Advanced second- or third-degree AV block, with symptomatic bradycardia, ventricular ... pacemaker and defibrillator systems are commonly used in pediatrics, but have a high rate of lead failure.

A thin tube (a catheter) was inserted into a vein in her leg and fed up to the right ventricle – one of the two lower chambers of the heart. Doctors then fed the tiny pacemaker through the ...

During the 1980s Mayo Clinic implanters had a practice of using VVI pacemakers in SSS patients ... have the highest rates of heart failure and malignant ventricular arrhythmias.

Two years ago, a medical professional approached scientists at the University of Tabriz in Iran with an interesting problem: Patients were having headaches after pacemaker implants. Working ...