Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The new leadless pacemaker (Micra AV, Medtronic) is indicated for the treatment of patients with ...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the Sheba Medical Center where early Sunday morning he had a cardiac pacemaker implanted. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images) When you ...

Factors including male sex, baseline conduction disturbances and intraprocedural atrioventricular block were associated with increased risk for permanent pacemaker implantation in patients with severe ...

In patients with high-grade atrioventricular block (AVB), a standard dual-chamber pacemaker can restore A-V synchrony and ensure an adequate ventricular pacing rate. In this setting, however, the ...

August 1, 2012 (Calgary, Alberta) — A joint consensus statement issued by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) recommends that patients with ...

An audit could be carried out on people with symptomatic bradycardia associated with sick sinus syndrome, atrioventricular block, or a combination of sick sinus syndrome and atrioventricular block who ...

DENVER, CO—The use of an implantable loop recorder (Reveal LINQ, Medtronic) identifies a high incidence of arrhythmic events at 12 months in patients who develop persistent left bundle branch block ...

DUBLIN, Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Micra™ AV, the world’s smallest pacemaker with ...

The smallest pacemaker in the world has just received official regulatory approval. Heart blocks are generally the result of heart disease and get progressively worse over time. The Micra AV pacemaker ...

Approximately 1 in 3 patients with severe aortic stenosis who undergo transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with the CoreValve device will require a permanent pacemaker within 30 days of the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Pediatric specialists at Norton Children’s Heart Institute successfully implanted a tiny pacemaker into a baby who was born at 28 weeks gestation, believed to be the first ...

There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of mortality or stroke with dual‑chamber pacing compared with single‑chamber ventricular pacing in the 4 large RCTs. PASE and CTOPP ...