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 ...

For the past 50 years, pacemakers have hardly changed, but a new device has the potential to change how pacemakers work. The device is the size of a large vitamin and is implanted via catheter rather ...

BEIJING -- A Chinese research team has successfully developed a miniature self-powered cardiac pacemaker, paving a new way for the advancement of implantable electronic devices. This achievement ...

Boulder Community Health’s cardiology team recently became the first in Boulder County to implant patients with the world’s smallest pacemaker. The device, known as a Micra Transcatheter Pacing System ...

Holy cow! That’s one small pacemaker. Dr. Stephen Osterle, senior vice president of medicine and technology and member of Medtronic’s Executive Management Team, unveiled the device. As you can see in ...

Medtronic has secured the FDA’s approval for the latest generation of its miniaturized, wireless pacemaker implants, the Micra AV2 and VR2. According to the company, the newest models can offer up to ...

FOR THOSE whose hearts occasionally go off rhythm, pacemakers are, quite literally, life savers. By providing a small electrical jolt at the right moment, they can keep a heart working at the ...

In the normal heart, the lower chambers (ventricles) pump at the same time and in sync with the heart's upper chambers (atria). Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), also called biventricular ...

For patients with heart failure, the pacemaker can be a lifesaving device. But for all of the benefits, the existing models also come with some concerning drawbacks. The tiny wires that provided ...

Pune: A leadless capsule pacemaker — a wireless device — was successfully implanted in a 61-year-old man's heart with complete blockage through a minimally invasive catheter-based procedure, with the ...

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