Dr. Hunter Champion answers the question: 'What Is A Biventricular Pacemaker?' — -- Question: What is a biventricular pacemaker or cardiac resynchronization therapy (also called a CRT device), ...

Multiple societies covering cardiovascular medicine, electrophysiology, heart failure, and imaging have released updated appropriate use criteria (AUC) for various cardiac implantable electronic ...

The heart is a finely tuned machine, pumping and squeezing to move blood through the body with a fresh supply of oxygen and nutrients. Electrical activity provides the spark to coordinate and activate ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Major adverse events remained common in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy implanted with an electronic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Robert Canby, a cardiac electrophysiologist, describes an FDA-approved novel lead-less system that provides cardiac ...

Electrophysiologists at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin recently became the first in the U.S. to implant an FDA-approved leadless system for cardiac ...

During spring 2005, we conducted an anonymous, Web-based survey of the members of the Heart Rhythm Society and the field representatives of the cardiac rhythm management divisions of two device ...

SAN DIEGO, CA—The observational BIO-LIBRA study, which enrolled nearly 50% women, has revealed important outcome differences by both sex and device type among patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy ...

Future Cardia, a medical device company, announced an expanded collaboration with remote cardiac monitoring company, Artella Solutions. Future Cardia is developing an implantable cardiac monitoring ...

AMSTERDAM -- Edoxaban (Savaysa) didn't improve outcomes for high-risk patients with subclinical atrial fibrillation (Afib)-like episodes detected by implanted cardiac devices, the NOAH-AFNET 6 trial ...