He performs a broad range of procedures including endocardial and epicardial catheter ablation, insertion of implantable loop recorders, pacemakers (leadless and traditional), implantable cardioverter ...

The symptoms of CHF can vary by the location of the heart damage, broadly described as left-sided heart failure, right-sided heart failure, or biventricular failure. Left-Sided Failure The left side ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD): A type of pacemaker that can deliver shocks if the heart rhythm becomes dangerously fast. Cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D): ...

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The Health Products Regulatory Authority has urged users of Defibtech defibrillator pads to immediately check their pads as they may have been labelled with incorrect expiry dates. A number of ...

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a bi-ventricular pacemaker defibrillator (BiV ICD, or biventricular implantable cardioverter defibrillator), used for a specific kind of heart failure, that can improve sudden death rates and ...

In addition, the described complication rate for biventricular ICD systems included the learning curve for implantation of cardiac resynchronization devices at our hospital particularly with ...

As a first step in testing this hypothesis, we set out to demonstrate that the tricuspid valve maladapts in disease. To this end, we induced biventricular heart failure in sheep that developed ...