Implantation of permanent pacemakers after heart surgery is linked to increased long-term risks for death and hospitalization for heart failure.

You must have heard of pacemakers? They are required when the heart's natural system malfunctions, causing it to beat too slowly (bradycardia), irregularly, or even pause. All these can hinder ...

Background Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are at risk of perioperative conduction system damage leading to permanent ...

Following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), disturbances in the heart's electrical conduction system can make a ...

Long Island Jewish Medical Center has performed what it says is the world’s first implantation of a leadless left ventricular pacemaker in an adult congenital heart patient. According to Northwell ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was undergoing emergency surgery to have a pacemaker implanted into his chest, reports said. This decision came after an alarm on Netanyahu’s heart monitor ...

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin have been making waves in the world of cardiology with a new battery-less pacemaker, ...

A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University could play a sizable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who developed it.