Patients who received a leadless pacemaker had similar rates of acute complications and survival at 30 days as those who received a transvenous VVI pacemaker, according to data presented at the ...
During the 1980s Mayo Clinic implanters had a practice of using VVI pacemakers in SSS patients who had retrograde AV block, on the assumption that those patients would be resistant to pacemaker ...
PHILADELPHIA — Accelerometer-based atrial sensing with a novel, enhanced, automated algorithm in patients with atrioventricular block and a single-chamber leadless pacemaker in the right ventricle ...
First results in human patients of a novel leadless pacemaker were presented last week at the HRS meeting in Denver by Vivek Reddy. Pacemaker leads are the most common source of complications ...
Data Published in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology and to be Presented at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions Demonstrates the Potential of Investigational Algorithms in Medtronic Micra ...
A 75-year-old man with a complex cardiac history presented for pacemaker lead extraction. His history included a mechanical mitral valve replacement (Björk-Shiley 27M, Shiley Inc., Irvine, California, ...
(RTTNews) - Medical device maker Medtronic plc (MDT) announced Friday new data from the Micra Coverage with Evidence Development (CED) Study, the largest evaluation of leadless pacemakers to date, ...
Boston Scientific ($BSX) revealed more details about its leadless pacemaker program, as it seeks to join Medtronic ($MDT) and St. Jude Medical ($STJ) in that market ...
Background: The Cardio QP™ Oesophageal Doppler Monitor measures the velocity time integral of the blood flow in the descending aorta Based on nomogramms of the aortic cross sectional area of a ...
Two female Pts. ages 5 and 14, with history of ventricular dysrrhythmia (VD) died suddenly. Pt I, had post-natal chaotic AV block and a prolonged QT interval. The infant required transvenous ...
Like implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) before them, pacemakers were found to be susceptible to interference from electromagnetic fields emitted from personal electronics, household ...
Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2005;14(1):35-38. A second large (N=2010) trial, Mode Selection Trial (MOST), [15] was published in 2002. This study was restricted to patients with SSS. No difference was seen ...