Patients, ≥18 years of age, were eligible for inclusion if they had at least one PAF episode documented by electrocardiogram (ECG) and a properly functioning Vitatron DDDR pacemaker with a bipolar ...

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The Aveir DR dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system (Abbott) performs well out to 1 year in patients largely treated for sinus node dysfunction or atrioventricular (AV) block, according to extended ...

Biotronik designed its leadless pacing system to use atrial electrical far-field sensing. The company says it would represent the world’s first intracardiac pacemaker to do so. It enables ...

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands—In patients with sinus node dysfunction treated with dual-chamber pacemakers, minimizing atrial pacing doesn’t lower the likelihood of developing atrial fibrillation (AF) ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses the regeneration of the cardiovascular system. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

Last week, Abbott began the commercial launch of its new leadless pacemaker, which it believes is a historic development in the world of cardiac rhythm devices. Aveir DR is a better option than ...

Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated ...

Pacemaker therapy that boosts impaired heart rate (HR) response to exertion failed to improve exercise capacity or quality of life in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction ...

LARGO, Fla. — A new type of pacemaker is on the market and now helping patients with heart issues in Florida. Danette Strange-Gay, the patient, hopes to be a kidney transplant recipient after years of ...

Dr. Zhuoshan Huang: A 79-year-old man was admitted to the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, because of dyspnea and edema in the arms and legs. The patient had ...