A man in his 90s was frail, symptomatic of heart failure and dependent on a pacemaker inserted decades prior for third-degree atrioventricular block. He requested his cardiologist to deactivate the ...

Data from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker has helped shed light on the events leading up to her kidnapping, but there are significant limits in how much data the devices can collect. Most importantly for ...

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 ...

A pacemaker, which unconfirmed media reports say Nancy Guthrie has, does not contain GPS and cannot be used to track a person's location. A pacemaker will continue to function even if it stops syncing ...

Introduction: Transcutaneous pacing (TCP) is used to treat bradycardia with hemodynamic compromise. A single-center study found that sustained electrical capture (SEC) was uncommon during prehospital ...

Malposition of pacemaker leads into the left heart is a rare but clinically significant complication that can lead to systemic thromboembolism. We report the case of a 78-year-old woman who underwent ...

AMY, amygdala; DGBIs, disorders of gut-brain interaction; DMV, dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus; ENS, enteric nervous system; Hyp, hypothalamus; NTS, nucleus tractus ...