A pacemaker is a small device implanted under the skin that controls abnormal heart rhythms. It's commonly used in people with heart conditions where the heart beats too slowly or irregularly. In this ...

For congestive heart failure patient Chet Consolazione even a short walk around his Petaluma garden would have been a challenge a year ago. "I'd sit down on the floor and rest. Then I'd go back to bed ...

The Cleveland Clinic announced their team successfully implanted the world's first leadless pacemaker defibrillator system in two patients. Pacemakers provide electrical stimulation to regulate a ...

An implanted combination cardiac resynchronization device and defibrillator reduces deaths from mild heart failure by 29% compared with a defibrillator alone, researchers reported Sunday. The report ...

In the normal heart, the lower chambers (ventricles) pump at the same time and in sync with the heart's upper chambers (atria). Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), also called biventricular ...

An implanted heart defibrillator can prolong life and reduce hospitalizations for people who have suffered heart failure and already use both pacemakers and drugs to ward off further problems.

New York, Nov. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "EU5 Cardiac Rhythm Management Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Pacemaker Implant Procedures, Cardiac ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) - Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a top Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, underwent a procedure to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator after he had a stroke.