The New England Journal of Medicine

Transvenous Left Atrial Pacing for the Control of Recurrent Ventricular Fibrillation

A 67-year-old man with acute anterolateral myocardial infarction had recurrent ventricular fibrillation that required insertion of temporary pacemaker. When a permanent pacemaker was inserted stable ...
Heart

Innovations in cardiac device therapy in the era of advanced rhythm management: implantable defibrillators and conduction system pacing

Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...
Labroots

Are Leadless Pacemakers the Future?

The human heart rate is under the influence of various hormonal and neural control mechanisms. Normally, conduction of an electrical impulse through the heart begins at the sinoatrial (SA) node and ...
Nature

Transvenous leads increase thromboembolic risk in patients with intracardiac shunts

Patients with intracardiac shunts might at some point require a pacemaker or an implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD). These patients may have numerous thrombotic risk factors, however, and ...
Medscape

Leadless Technology May Free Pacing and ICDs From Transvenous 'Tethers'

June 21, 2012 (Nice, France) — The next "disruptive" technology in pacemaker and ICD technology may be devices that do not have any transvenous leads or perhaps no leads at all [1]. The potential for ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

A Leadless Intracardiac Transcatheter Pacing System

A leadless intracardiac transcatheter pacing system has been designed to avoid the need for a pacemaker pocket and transvenous lead. In a prospective multicenter study without controls, a ...
Medscape

Pacemaker and Defibrillator Therapy in Pediatrics and Congenital Heart Disease

There are unique technical issues that must be considered with the implantation of devices in small patients and those with CHD. Although most centers report low complication rates of complications in ...
MedPage Today

Dual-Chamber Leadless Pacemaker Impresses in Safety-and-Performance Study

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Healio

For older adults, similar outcomes for subcutaneous vs. transvenous ICDs

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Prior research has established the subcutaneous ICD as a reasonable alternative to the transvenous ICD in ...
Business Wire

Experience with BioTrace Medical’s Tempo Temporary Pacing Lead in Mitral Valve Surgeries Presented at Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists’ 43 rd Annual Meeting

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioTrace Medical, Inc., the leader in innovative temporary cardiac pacing technology, today announced the company’s Tempo ® Temporary Pacing Lead was featured in a ...
Healio

Leads from transvenous ICDs confer tricuspid regurgitation

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transvenous ICD leads are associated with tricuspid regurgitation compared with subcutaneous ICDs. More research ...