In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; Yu Zhang, Wen-Long Dai, Can-Can Lin, Qiao-Yuan Li and Cheng-Jun Guo from Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, ...

Implantation of an S-ICD in a Patient with a DDD Pacemaker and Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries In a new publication from Cardiovascular ...

Background: T-wave alternans (TWA) is a useful method for identifying patients who are at risk for sudden cardiac death. We aimed to determine the effects of different pacing modes on test results and ...

ROCHESTER, NY — Event-detection algorithms used by the wearable cardioverter-defibrillator (LifeVest WCD, Zoll Medical) may be fooled into delivering an inappropriate shock in patients with implanted ...

Though a Northwestern-developed quarter-size dissolvable pacemaker worked well in pre-clinical animal studies, cardiac surgeons asked if it was possible to make the device smaller. To reduce the size ...

WASHINGTON (March 19, 2017) -- Patients with recurrent fainting episodes (syncope) who received a pacemaker delivering a pacing program designed to detect and stop the abnormal heart rhythms that ...

Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital ...

Results from SORIN GROUP’s long-term clinical randomized trial showed that the SafeR pacing mode significantly reduces heart failure events (death and hospitalization) Nice, France, – Sorin Group, a ...

Background A 70-year-old man with diabetes mellitus, fever of unknown origin and oliguria was admitted to hospital. Blood cultures were positive for a Staphylococcus aureus infection and antibiotic ...

Patients with recurrent fainting episodes (syncope) who received a pacemaker delivering a pacing program designed to detect and stop the abnormal heart rhythms that precede syncope had a seven-fold ...