For patients with heart failure, the pacemaker can be a lifesaving device. But for all of the benefits, the existing models also come with some concerning drawbacks. The tiny wires that provided ...

This summer, doctors at UnityPoint Health performed the QCA's first leadless pacemaker procedure. Now, Dr. Helbert Acosta ...

Billed as the world’s smallest pacemaker, Medtronic’s new Micra TPS (Transcatheter Pacing System) is about the size of a large vitamin capsule. At about one-tenth the size of a regular pacemaker, ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

Boulder Community Health’s cardiology team recently became the first in Boulder County to implant patients with the world’s smallest pacemaker. The device, known as a Micra Transcatheter Pacing System ...

FOR THOSE whose hearts occasionally go off rhythm, pacemakers are, quite literally, life savers. By providing a small electrical jolt at the right moment, they can keep a heart working at the ...

San Diego, CA (October 26, 2009) – A study of patients with implantable cardiac devices such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators or left ventricular assist devices found that performing capsule ...

Dr Nikhil Mahajan, along with his dedicated medical team, successfully performed a rare implantation of a Leadless Pacemaker – AVEIR on a 29-year-old patient at KD Hospital, Marble Market, Jammu. The ...

In Calicut, a quiet but remarkable moment in medical history has taken place. Within just 15 days, doctors at Metromed International Cardiac Centre (MICC) successfully carried out five implants of the ...

Nov. 9, 2004 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an esophageal imaging device for diagnostic use; a soft-tissue repair patch for use in surgical procedures; a pacemaker that ...