Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reducing the current 6-month driving restriction following a new implantable cardioverter defibrillator to 3 ...

On February 15, 2018, CMS released a final policy decision updating the national coverage determination (NCD) governing implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation for Medicare ...

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the top news from the virtual Heart Rhythm Society Annual Scientific Sessions. Readers were most interested in radiation treatment for ventricular ...

DURHAM, N.C. – The use of implanted defibrillators that keep the heart beating in proper electrical rhythm to prevent cardiac arrest appears to be cost-effective for those patients who receive a ...

ICD-related complications including inappropriate shocks were observed in total, in 136 of 440 study patients (31%) during 46 ± 37 months follow-up as summarized in Table II. Complications without ...

Every year millions of people die or are affected by heart diseases that target different organs in the body. Christopher Melvin Canada is a survivor of one of these heart diseases. In 2012, he was ...

Objective: This study was designed to test defibrillation threshold (DFT) with the least number of fibrillation inductions using upper limit of vulnerability (ULV) and to describe the most practical ...

The indications for ICD implantation continue to expand; however, these devices are associated with complications related to the implantation procedure itself and morbidity caused by the normal and ...

Background: Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy is used for primary prevention of death among people with heart failure, and new evidence in 2005 on its effectiveness changed practice ...

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; Yu Zhang, Wen-Long Dai, Can-Can Lin, Qiao-Yuan Li and Cheng-Jun Guo from Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, ...

Dr. David M. Dudzinski: A 44-year-old right-handed man was admitted to the cardiology unit of this hospital because of pain and swelling on the left side of the neck. Twelve weeks earlier, at this ...