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 ...

According to statistics, 600,000 new pacemakers are implanted each year ... the heart fails to do so naturally and to treat heart failure, and hypertonic cardiomyopathy. However, since it is ...

Information for the 3 million Americans who are living with a pacemaker, after two reported deaths from device failure.

Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

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 ...

Recent innovations in CRM have the potential to revolutionise the treatment of arrhythmias and heart failure. Leadless pacemakers, such as Abbott’s AVEIR VR, eliminate the risks associated with ...

especially respiratory muscle weakness and pulmonary failure. However, because severe heart block and escape arrhythmias are so serious, we tend to place cardiac pacemakers when necessary to ...