Heart failure symptoms have been reversed in patients with a new pacemaker that changes how the heart is fuelled.
The thin, flexible, lightweight device could be used in patients who need temporary pacing after cardiac surgery or while waiting for a permanent pacemaker. All components of the pacemaker are ...
A pacemaker could help reverse symptoms of heart failure by encouraging the heart to use more efficient fuel, according to ...
A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden demonstrates that a change in the ECG wave called the QRS prolongation is associated with a higher rate of heart-failure mortality. According to the ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A doctor at one Lowcountry hospital became the first heart specialist in the Carolinas to implant a new type of leadless pacemaker this week. Electrophysiologist Darren ...
Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...
CRT is a surgical procedure in which doctors implant a pacemaker in both the right and left sides of the heart to help your heart’s chambers beat together. The goal is to improve heart pumping ...
The wire-free pacemaker could benefit patients recovering from cardiac surgery, without the need for added operations to remove it. Reading time 2 minutes A team of scientists created a novel type of ...
A Green Country teen is starting to get his energy back after getting a pacemaker earlier this year. Hunter Parrick, 17, is one of the youngest people in Oklahoma to undergo a new type of surgery ...
According to a new study published in ESC Heart Failure, nearly 1 in 5 elderly patients with a permanent cardiac pacemaker and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) have transthyretin amyloid ...
Researchers at Northwestern and George Washington universities (GW) have developed the first-ever transient pacemaker — a wireless, battery-free, fully implantable pacing device that disappears after ...