Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The new leadless pacemaker (Micra AV, Medtronic) is indicated for the treatment of patients with ...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the Sheba Medical Center where early Sunday morning he had a cardiac pacemaker implanted. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images) When you ...

Medtronic Canada ULC, a subsidiary of Medtronic plc announced that it has received a Health Canada licence for Micra AV, the world's smallest pacemaker with atrioventricular (AV) synchrony. Micra AV ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Factors including male sex, baseline conduction disturbances and intraprocedural atrioventricular block were ...

In patients with high-grade atrioventricular block (AVB), a standard dual-chamber pacemaker can restore A-V synchrony and ensure an adequate ventricular pacing rate. In this setting, however, the ...

August 1, 2012 (Calgary, Alberta) — A joint consensus statement issued by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) recommends that patients with ...

This guidance refers only to pacing for the primary indications of sick sinus syndrome and/or atrioventricular block, and does not cover more complex pacing indications. Dual-chamber pacing is ...

In patients with atrial fibrillation that is refractory to drug therapy, radio-frequency ablation of the atrioventricular node and implantation of a permanent pacemaker are an alternative therapeutic ...

Abnormal heart rhythms (dysrhythmias) are caused by disturbances in electrical impulse generation or by abnormal conduction between chambers of the heart – principally within the sinus node, ...