January 27, 2006-- Patients with conventional right ventricular pacemakers who develop severe heart failure may benefit from an upgrade to a biventricular pacing (BVP) system. The results of the small ...

Right ventricular pacing restores an adequate heart rate in patients with atrioventricular block, but high percentages of right ventricular apical pacing may promote left ventricular systolic ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2004--St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced today U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and first implants of the Frontier(TM) II ...

Biventricular pacing is an excellent option for certain patients with advanced HF. Also known as “cardiac resynchronization therapy,” biventricular pacing has been shown to improve HF symptoms in a ...

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2006;29(1):70-96. R-wave double-counting may result in shocks for SVT slower than the programmed VT detection interval because alternate device-detected intervals ...

You may have heard of two little devices that doctors use to help treat heart problems: pacemakers and ICDs (implantable cardioverter defibrillators). They use them when you have a type of heart ...