Background: Dual-chamber pacing is believed to have an advantage over single-chamber ventricular pacing. The aim of the study was to determine whether elderly patients with implanted pacemaker for ...

Thirty-one consecutive patients (18 boys, 61%) who underwent the implantation of a Medtronic Kappa 901 pacemaker were enrolled. Mean age was 7.5 ± 6.2 years (median 6.5, range 1 day to 24 years).

Patients with recurrent fainting episodes (syncope) who received a pacemaker delivering a pacing program designed to detect and stop the abnormal heart rhythms that precede syncope had a seven-fold ...

Results from SORIN GROUP’s long-term clinical randomized trial showed that the SafeR pacing mode significantly reduces heart failure events (death and hospitalization) Nice, France, – Sorin Group, a ...

Minimizing atrial pacing does not prevent atrial fibrillation in patients with sinus node dysfunction, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2023.

Patients who have pacemakers or defibrillators are often denied the opportunity to undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of safety concerns, unless the devices meet certain criteria ...