Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who had transcatheter aortic valve replacement, there was no difference in survival or adverse CV ...

In patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), need for a permanent pacemaker does not raise the risk of all-cause death or other adverse outcomes by 1 year. Irrespective of ...

Three new studies suggest that conduction abnormalities leading to permanent pacemaker implantation remain a frequent occurrence after TAVR that can be predicted by various patient, procedural, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to data published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, both short- and long-term follow-up ...

Ofer Meri, M.D.; Michael Ilan, M.D.; Avraham Oren, M.D.; Daniel Fink, M.D.; Maher Deeb, M.D.; Dani Bitran, M.D.; Shuli Silberman, M.D. From a practical viewpoint, the ...

Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before deciding whether to have a permanent implant, reveals novel research. Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before ...

Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before deciding whether to have a permanent implant, reveals novel research presented today at EHRA EUROPACE - CARDIOSTIM 2015 by Professor ...

Seventy-two patients (1.4%) required permanent pacemaker implantation. Indications for PPM implantation included: (i) complete atrioventricular (AV) block in 59; of these, 35 were immediate in onset ...

Patients who undergo minimally invasive heart valve replacement, known as TAVR, sometimes develop heart rhythm problems that necessitate placement of a permanent pacemaker. However, when a pacemaker ...

Background A 70-year-old man with diabetes mellitus, fever of unknown origin and oliguria was admitted to hospital. Blood cultures were positive for a Staphylococcus aureus infection and antibiotic ...

Delhi doctors have implanted a permanent pacemaker in a newborn with complete congenital heart block. It is a rare disorder and occurs in 1 in 20,000 births. Doctors at a Delhi hospital implanted a ...