Physicians from The Heart Institute of East Texas, in collaboration with St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Lufkin, are among the first in the region to successfully implant a groundbreaking extravascular imp ...

This news comes amid a push within value-based care to ensure high-cost medical interventions deliver meaningful improvements ...

New report in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology shows that rural patients have lower referral rates and higher refusal rates for implantable cardioverter defibrillators, a standard device therapy for ...

Two types of implantable cardioverter defibrillators can reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death with HCM. Pacemakers and implantable loop recorders also may be options.

PROFID EHRA, the first clinical trial seeking to challenge routine implantation of defibrillators in heart attack survivors with heart failure has just been launched. The European Society of ...

PARIS — The survival benefits of primary-prevention device therapy seen in seminal trials reported in the early 2000s still apply today, suggests a registry study from Sweden that also saw gross ...

Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) constitute a major breakthrough in the management of heart rhythm disorders. These devices largely include bradycardia pacemakers, biventricular ...

Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) announced longer-term follow-up results of its investigational Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV ICD) System, designed to treat dangerously fast heart ...

Patients with heart failure (HF) and left ventricular (LV) dysfunction have been shown to derive clinical benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and from implantable ...

Physicians at Mercy Fort Smith are among the first in Arkansas to implant a new type of defibrillator that helps protect ...

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