UC Davis Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology Dan Cortez has set another world record: He is the first to implant a dual chamber leadless pacemaker in a child. His case report was published ...

Did we just take one step closer to immortality? That might sound like a bit of a stretch, but consider how many deaths are heart-related. Now, imagine if you had a heart that could effectively live ...

Future wound care: regenerative medicine, smart dressings, nanotech.United Kingdom, London, Jan. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Introspective ...

Although the first electronic pacemaker was implanted in Sweden in 1958, the lithium iodine battery was the one that was created and put to service. The most significant advancement in pacemakers ...

It contains a long-life lithium battery similar to the sort used in watches, and has complex electronic circuitry in a titanium cell. Virtually all pacemakers are implanted under a local ...

Pacemakers are typically placed in children with congenital complete heart block, a rare condition that can lead to sudden death and affects 1 in about 15,000 to 22,000 children.

First FDA-Cleared Antibiotic-Eluting BioEnvelope Now Available in U.S. for Implantable Pacemakers, Defibrillators, and Neurostimulators SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (Nasdaq: ...

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to observe the number of pacemakers that had never been reprogrammed after implantation, and the effect of optimised output programming on estimated longevity of ...

The advent of electronic pacemakers has transformed the treatment and lives of many patients suffering from symptomatic bradyarrhythmias over the past few decades. However, a number of important ...

Although some studies have demonstrated that, given appropriate precautions, MRI can be safely performed in patients with selected implantable pacemakers, MRI in pacemaker patients is still ...