BM Birla Heart Research Centre in Kolkata successfully retrieves a seven-year-old leadless pacemaker from an elderly patient, marking a rare and complex cardiac procedure in South Asia. | One of India ...

Nancy Guthrie’s 2 a.m. pacemaker spike on the day she vanished could mean that the elderly woman was involved in a heart rate-surging struggle with her possible captors, a lead cardiologist speculated ...

We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology. By Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon and Samuel Granados Visuals by Finbarr O’Reilly and Carmen Abd Ali Promotional videos from the Association ...

Dr. Zhuoshan Huang: A 79-year-old man was admitted to the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, because of dyspnea and edema in the arms and legs. The patient had ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Operators acknowledged the complex electrophysiological concerns around transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR), with early-stage research providing little reassurance. One ...

NEW YORK, NY—Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) is safe and effective in patients who have severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) and preexisting leads from implanted cardiac devices, but ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel soft robotic phantom designed for evaluating medical tools in pacemaker lead implantation procedures, while minimizing reliance on animal testing. The platform ...

In transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI), temporary transvenous pacing is essential for rapid pacing as well as for backup pacing. The use of a temporary ventricular pacing wire may be ...

The world’s tiniest pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and dissolves after ...