The patients who made the biggest news at last week's meeting of the American Heart Association in Miami were those who can talk about their "tickers" without being cute. They are ...

Don't let your surgeon toss your old heart pacemaker out with the trash.  Used pacemakers can be refurbished, researchers ...

In low-income countries, it could be 3 per million population or fewer who get pacemakers each year." Thomas Crawford, M.D., ...

A randomized trial that compared previously used and new pacemakers in patients found the reconditioned devices were as safe ...

Background: Conduction disturbances requiring permanent pacemaker implantation after heart surgery occur in about 1.5% of patients. Early pacemaker implantation may reduce morbidity and ...

The effects of beta-adrenergic blockade with propranolol were studied in 10 patients with complete heart block and fixed rate internal pacemakers. The patients were grouped according to the absence or ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...

CHICAGO — One person’s used pacemaker is another person’s treasure. A program to refurbish used pacemakers could expand access to the lifesaving devices. In a clinical trial of nearly 300 ...

“Access to pacemakers is limited in many low- and middle-income countries due to the relatively high cost of the devices,” ...