Among Medicare beneficiaries, implantation was especially frequent for female patients and those undergoing tricuspid valve replacement with or without concomitant left-sided heart surgeries.

CRT is a surgical procedure in which doctors implant a pacemaker in both the right and left sides of the heart to help your heart’s chambers beat together. The goal is to improve heart pumping ...

Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

The incidence of implantation of a permanent pacemaker immediately after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) increased significantly over a period of 6 years in Spain, and this rising trend ...

The principal findings of this retrospective cohort study of more than 6,000 cardiac surgery patients are as follows. First, 40% of the patients were PPM dependent in long-term follow-up. Predictors ...

ATLANTA - A metro Atlanta mom is crediting doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with saving her newborn baby’s life after her was born prematurely with a dangerously low heart rate. They ...

Doctors said specialised evaluation helped detect an underlying issue missed in routine tests, highlighting the risks linked ...

The eldest living president of the United States now has a pacemaker. Former President Ford had the pacemaker implanted Monday afternoon and is recovering, according to a statement from Ford's office.