We report the case of a 51-year-old female who underwent placement of an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) and a biventricular pacemaker and who immediately postoperatively experienced ...

The risk associated with implantation of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is often focused on ... angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery. Data from the NCDR registry ...

The 3x World's Strongest Man and 2x IPF World Champion, Bill Kazmaier, has been hospitalized for a life threatening heart ...

Patients with advanced cancer who also had cardiac defibrillators were more likely than those without these implants to ...

The value of a shorter detection interval for SVT-VT discrimination is illustrated by the EMPIRIC (Comparison of Empiric to Physician-Tailored Programming of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators) ...

trial suggested that implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) do not reduce overall mortality in patients with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (NICM), despite reducing sudden cardiac death. We ...

UC Davis Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology Dan Cortez has set another world record: He is the first to implant a dual chamber leadless pacemaker in a child. His case report was published ...

Correspondence to Dr Siva Kiran Mulpuru, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA; Mulpuru.Siva{at}mayo.edu ...

Apple has cautioned users that implanted pacemakers, defibrillators and other medical implants might contain sensors that respond to magnets in iPhones and MagSafe accessories. Users are advised ...

Pacemakers have established the framework for the development of other implantable devices. The Surge in Demand for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators The increase in arrhythmias and sudden ...

OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois announced surgeons had successfully performed the world’s first implantation of an ...