Pacemakers are medical devices implanted in the body to regulate heart rhythms ... To reduce postoperative trauma and recovery time, our device can be implanted with a minimally invasive technique.

Pacemakers simply keep the heart rate in a comfortable range if the primary problem in the heart is electrical ... they rely on doctors knowing who will benefit from this technology and how to program ...

It also reduces the risk of complications from traditional pacemakers, which have a battery, a generator, and wires. The wires are threaded into your heart through a vein. A metal box with the ...

THIS paper is a report of the clinical application of an intracardiac pacemaker in the therapy of severe or intractable Stokes–Adams seizures associated with heart block. This is the first ...

The cut may be on either side of your chest. The doctor will put the pacemaker leads through the cut. The leads go into a large blood vessel in the upper chest. Then the doctor will guide the leads ...

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 ...

"implanted pacemakers and defibrillators might contain sensors that respond to magnets and radios when in close contact". Implanted defibrillators send electrical pulses to regulate abnormal heart ...

Background: Conduction disturbances requiring permanent pacemaker implantation after heart surgery occur in about 1.5% of patients. Early pacemaker implantation may reduce morbidity and ...