Patients who received a leadless pacemaker had similar rates of acute complications and survival at 30 days as those who received a transvenous VVI pacemaker, according to data presented at the ...

During the 1980s Mayo Clinic implanters had a practice of using VVI pacemakers in SSS patients who had retrograde AV block, on the assumption that those patients would be resistant to pacemaker ...

Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2005;14(1):35-38. A second large (N=2010) trial, Mode Selection Trial (MOST), [15] was published in 2002. This study was restricted to patients with SSS. No difference was seen ...

Two female Pts. ages 5 and 14, with history of ventricular dysrrhythmia (VD) died suddenly. Pt I, had post-natal chaotic AV block and a prolonged QT interval. The infant required transvenous ...

First results in human patients of a novel leadless pacemaker were presented last week at the HRS meeting in Denver by Vivek Reddy. Pacemaker leads are the most common source of complications ...

Background: The Cardio QP™ Oesophageal Doppler Monitor measures the velocity time integral of the blood flow in the descending aorta Based on nomogramms of the aortic cross sectional area of a ...

PHILADELPHIA — Accelerometer-based atrial sensing with a novel, enhanced, automated algorithm in patients with atrioventricular block and a single-chamber leadless pacemaker in the right ventricle ...

(RTTNews) - Medical device maker Medtronic plc (MDT) announced Friday new data from the Micra Coverage with Evidence Development (CED) Study, the largest evaluation of leadless pacemakers to date, ...

Boston Scientific ($BSX) revealed more details about its leadless pacemaker program, as it seeks to join Medtronic ($MDT) and St. Jude Medical ($STJ) in that market ...

Medtronic plc MDT recently presented new data from the Micra Coverage with Evidence Development (CED) Study, which demonstrated a significant reduction in complications and reinterventions with ...

Like implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) before them, pacemakers were found to be susceptible to interference from electromagnetic fields emitted from personal electronics, household ...

Three generations of Castellanos doctors: In this July 13, 1996, file photo, then-94-year-old patriarch Dr. Agustin W. Castellanos (center) is flanked by his son, Dr. Agustin Castellanos (left) and ...