DENVER — Patients with indications for implantable cardioverter defibrillators and wide QRS durations derived no additional benefit from left ventricular pacing compared with biventricular pacing, ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...

Right ventricular pacing restores an adequate heart rate in patients with atrioventricular block, but high percentages of right ventricular apical pacing may promote left ventricular systolic ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2004--St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced today U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and first implants of the Frontier(TM) II ...

Looking at a large cohort of patients undergoing various types of open heart surgery, investigators have provided contemporary data that can be used to inform patients about the risks of cardiac ...

You may have heard of two little devices that doctors use to help treat heart problems: pacemakers and ICDs (implantable cardioverter defibrillators). They use them when you have a type of heart ...

Concerns that electromagnetic interference from standard airport metal detectors could adversely affect the pacing and sensing functions of pacemakers (PMs) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators ...

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2006;29(1):70-96. R-wave double-counting may result in shocks for SVT slower than the programmed VT detection interval because alternate device-detected intervals ...

Electrophysiologists are asking for better communication between their field and the interventional cardiology community, particularly with operators who perform percutaneous transcatheter tricuspid ...

Biventricular pacing is an excellent option for certain patients with advanced HF. Also known as “cardiac resynchronization therapy,” biventricular pacing has been shown to improve HF symptoms in a ...