Balance athletic goals with arrhythmia risk: match the device model and sensor to the sport, and use stress testing to set detection zones and avoid inappropriate therapy.

Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.

After a 3-hour flight, however, he developed dyspnea and leg edema, and CT pulmonary angiography confirmed acute PE. He was started on rivaroxaban (Xarelto); but while taking it, he experienced ...

Here are five things to know. 1. For the study, research exposed 119 people with pacemakers to electric and magnetic fields with frequencies of 50 to 60 hertz — similar to levels used by power grids.

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 ...

ISSAQUAH, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BaroPace Inc. announces its Phase I first-in-human trial of PressurePace TM, its patent-pending pacemaker control algorithm for the treatment of heart failure with ...

CRT is a surgical procedure in which doctors implant a pacemaker in both the right and left sides of the heart to help your heart’s chambers beat together. The goal is to improve heart pumping ...

Due to advances in medical technology, especially in the last few decades, pacemakers are now better than before. While they aren’t all perfect, they can help seniors during life-threatening moments.