Many older patients are unsuitable for conventional pacemakers due to limited venous access or a heightened risk of infection ...

A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University near Chicago could play a ...

Abbott published findings from the AVEIR DR i2i study evaluating the company's novel dual-chamber leadless pacemaker (LP) ...

Heart Rate Mystery Unveiled: Sex Differences in Human Sinoatrial Node Genes and Female Tachycardia - (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCEP.124.013534) ...

This means fewer complications, faster recovery, and a more comfortable experience for patients.

A new pacemaker being tested in New Zealand could help patients with heart failure feel and move better. The device has been designed to copy the heart's natural rhythm, speeding up and slowing down ...

Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute and Bob and Corrine Frick Center for Heart Failure and Arrhythmia examined donated human hearts to unmask unique gene sets in the SAN pacemaker cells ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – For decades, doctors and researchers have puzzled over a basic heart rhythm mystery: Why do women tend to have faster heartbeats while men are more likely to develop irregular rhythms ...

Pacemakers are medical devices that regulate the heart's rhythm by sending electrical impulses to the heart muscles. They treat various heart conditions, such as arrhythmias and bradycardia.

The biggest problem with traditional pacemakers is that the leads, or wires that are used to send electrical currents into the heart to shock it back into rhythm, break or fail. But now ...