Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

In May, surgeons implanted a leadless mini-pacemaker in Brubaker's heart as part of a clinical trial. "The device is so small we're able to implant via the femoral vein in the leg, into the right ...

The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. 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 ...

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

Although some studies have demonstrated that, given appropriate precautions, MRI can be safely performed in patients with selected implantable pacemakers, MRI in pacemaker patients is still ...

A mini maze procedure is minimally invasive and takes between ... In some cases, the Maze procedure can damage the heart's natural pacemaker (known as your sinus node), which may require the ...

Sixty-seven years ago on Halloween, a rolling power outage wreaked havoc across the Twin Cities and at the University of Minnesota hospital, where cardiac patients were relying on electrical ...

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 ...

He said the family nicknamed Maisie “Bird” when she was young and described her as his “Mini-Me” who grew up to be “fiercely ...

Two students from Scoil Mhuire, Timahoe are to be honoured at a civic reception next Thursday November 14 at 7.30 pm at Áras ...