Background Cardiac surgery carries a heightened risk of bradyarrhythmias, but current permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation ...

Children's National presents proof-of-concept design for miniature pacemakers at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2018 At 2:15 p.m. C.T. on Sunday, Nov. 11, Rohan Kumthekar, M.D., ...

Athens, Tenn.-based Starr Regional Medical Center completed its first implantation of Medtronic’s Micra leadless pacemaker, a device for patients with slow heart rhythms.  The minimally invasive ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - One of the first patients to receive some high-tech heart help is saying thank you to the team at St. Elizabeth Health after they helped give him back part of his life. One of the ...

See that teeny tiny rectangle next to that pencil tip up there? That’s a pacemaker – the world’s smallest in fact, which has just been revealed in a new study. Cardiac pacemakers are up there with ...

Two of Orange County’s biggest hospitals, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and Providence St. Joseph, issued statements on the same day to tout successful implants of a new wireless pacemaker from ...

Walking into the sterile, catheterization lab at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Northeast Fresno is like stepping into a war room in the battle against a potentially deadly heart condition with the ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger turns more into a “machine” every day. The 76-year-old “Terminator” star, who had a congenital heart defect, revealed on his “Arnold’s Pump Club” podcast that he was fitted for a ...

Doctors are calling a first-of-its kind wireless pacemaker a game changer, saying the newly-approved device will help keep heart patients alive. Barry Lawrence, a 77-year-old Orange County resident, ...

Here in the metro, one grandma is an anomaly. On Friday night, a special anniversary for a matriarch was interwoven with ...