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 ...

Signs of heart block may vary from person to person. In some people, it may be mild and asymptomatic, while others may ...

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 ...

Pacemakers send electrical pulses to regulate a person’s heart rate and, in 1957, these electrical innovations needed to be ...

Thanks to the Living Heart Project, 3D virtual reality serves as a powerful mechanism for allowing medical teams to share a ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust have discovered a backup natural pacemaker, which is able to generate a pulse and control the heart rate. The ...

Background: The incidence of conduction disease requiring permanent pacemaker (PPM ... Aortic valve types did not predict complete heart block (CHB) and PPM implantation. Of those patients ...

California and Florida have the most top-ranked hospitals for pacemaker or defibrillator placement in the U.S., according to the WebMD Choice Awards. WebMD and Medscape partnered to recognize U.S.

Dr. Subramanya G. Venkata, an electrophysiologist and interventional cardiologist at the Heart Institute of East Texas, ...

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 ...

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 ...