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 ...

Now that at least four manufacturers have produced a complete MRI-conditional pacing system, with various types of leads available (tined, screw-in, etc.), either of these two problems do not ...

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 ...

Pacemakers simply keep the heart rate in a comfortable range if the primary problem ... Certain people are at elevated risk for these types of rhythm disturbances. Many cases of "sudden death" in ...

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 through the blood vessel into different ...

or wires that are used to send electrical currents into the heart to shock it back into rhythm, break or fail. But now, a new type of pacemaker may keep hearts going without using any wires at all.

The risks and cost of pacemaker implantation should be weighed ... especially LBBB, and (ii) type of surgery, especially on the aortic valve. This will enable early mobilization, early discharge ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A wave of contraction spreads across the heart - to the left atrium and then to the ventricles. This enables the ventricles to contract together. Sometimes, the rhythm of the heart's natural ...