In general, it makes good sense to remind any of your healthcare providers that ... That said, people with certain heart arrhythmias or a history of heart failure should avoid drinking alcohol. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pacemaker is used to operate the smooth functioning of the heart when the heart fails to do so naturally and to treat heart failure, and hypertonic cardiomyopathy. However, since it is a machine ...

Pediatric cardiologists have implanted a dual chamber leadless pacemaker in a child. UC Davis Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology Dan Cortez has set another world record: He is the first to ...

Summary: Researchers developed innovative materials to improve the performance of brain and heart pacemakers by reducing signal interference. These devices often face challenges from external ...

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

Objective We sought to investigate prevalence, incidence and prognostic implications of permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation in patients with cardiac amyloidosis ... The associations between PPM ...

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 ...

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 ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...