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 ...

Old” pacemakers may still work for years, so doctors are refurbishing used devices and donating them to patients in low- and middle-income countries.

Your heart's job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout ... wears down after years of bending with each heartbeat. On rare occasions, pacemaker parts are recalled. Usually these parts ...

Pacemakers with at least six years of battery life and proper electrical function were sterilized for reuse. The "My Heart ...

The only effective treatment we have currently for their heart block is cardiac pacemaker implantation. The degree of heart disease must be weighed against the degree of other systemic disease ...

This was followed by the first prosthetic valve implanted in St. Louis in 1962, the first cardiac pacemaker implanted in St. Louis in 1965, and the first use of coronary bypass in St. Louis in 1969.

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

Recycled pacemakers can function as well as new devices, according to a new study. These used and reconditioned devices have the potential to increase access to pacemaker therapy in low- and ...

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.