The work could make pacemakers available to people who could not otherwise afford them, cardiac electrophysiologist Thomas Crawford said in a news briefing. The hope, he said, is to scale up the ...

Battery life depends on how frequently the heart requires the pacemaker to initiate heartbeats. Pacemaker wires occasionally need to be replaced if they fracture or if the insulation wears down after ...

Kolkata's Manipal Hospital pioneers the first injectable pacemaker in eastern India, offering a safer, minimally invasive ...

We therefore recommend pacemaker implantation after cardiac surgery for patients who are pacemaker dependent after surgery and whose spontaneous rhythm does not recover by postoperative day 5.

Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 698-056, March 1998.

This enables the ventricles to contract together. Sometimes, the rhythm of the heart's natural pacemaker process becomes disrupted - a person's heart beats abnormally. It can be abnormally slow or ...

and to determine whether permanent cardiac pacemakers may be beneficial in the treatment of myotonic dystrophy heart disease. Background: Myotonic dystrophy affects the cardiac conduction system.

Nevertheless, it is recommended that capsule endoscopy is not performed in patients with cardiac pacemakers or other electronic devices because of the possibility of electronic interference ...

Europe and some other parts of India, the innovative pacemaker provides Indian patients with a safer and less invasive alternative to traditional pacemakers for managing heart rhythm disorders.

Crawford, M.D., a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center. "Unlike in the United States, pacemaker therapy is often not available or affordable for people in low- and ...

Advt People who experience slower-than-normal heart rhythm may receive a pacemaker to deliver pulses of electricity to trigger the heart to beat properly. Balbir Singh, Chairman Cardiology ...