Advanced second- or third-degree AV block, with symptomatic bradycardia, ventricular dysfunction or low cardiac output. Sinus node dysfunction with symptoms during age-inappropriate bradycardia.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

Dr. William O'Neill answers the question: 'Pacemaker, Defibrillator Scenarios?' — -- Question: What is the difference between abnormal heart rhythms treated by pacemakers and defibrillators?

Cleveland Clinic doctors were the first in the world to successfully implant leadless pacemaker defibrillator systems in two patients as part of a global clinical trial sponsored by Boston Scientific, ...

The average heart beats 100,000 times and pumps 2,000 gallons of blood every day. But not every heart is average. Millions of Americans live with arrhythmia, a condition where the electrical impulses ...

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

Data presented during a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2014 is the industry’s largest study of remote management of pacemaker patients ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical ...

Researchers have discovered that an implantable heart device, a combination of a defibrillator and pacemaker, is vulnerable to hackers. According to a study, authored by researchers at the University ...

Less than a month after Charles “Chick” Woodfall, 78, got his defibrillator implanted in 2000, he and his wife, Nancy, 72, traveled in their nearly 27-foot motor home from the Palo Alto area to Morro ...

Some portable tech devices equipped with powerful magnets can interfere with your heart implant's ability to regulate dangerous irregular heart rhythms, a new study reports. Swiss researchers found ...

The Cleveland Clinic announced their team successfully implanted the world's first leadless pacemaker defibrillator system in two patients. Pacemakers provide electrical stimulation to regulate a ...