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The patient, a 45-year-old man hospitalized for months with severe heart failure, became the first in the United States to ...
The brain-computer interface lets those with cervical spinal cord injuries or ALS control a computer with their thoughts.
In a milestone for East Texas cardiology, Dr. Vivek Mangla of Advanced Cardiology & Electrophysiology has performed Lufkin’s ...
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“A-fib is the most common type of heart arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat,” said Dr. Amin Rmeileh, an interventional ...
Background Tachyarrhythmias and bradyarrhythmias affect 20%–50% of adult patients with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and some of these patients will require cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) ...
Gleneagles Hospital in Hyderabad successfully used the Watchman device to prevent stroke in a 65-year-old woman with atrial ...
The device, approved by the FDA just over a year ago, was implanted in April, and Kovac was able to return home the same day. "I feel perfectly normal. I don't have and I haven't had any issues.
The WiSE CRT system with a leadless right ventricular pacing device. [Image courtesy of EBR Systems] EBR Systems today announced the first commercial patients in the U.S. successfully implanted ...
The WATCHMAN is a device about the size of a quarter. It's implanted via catheter through a vein in the upper leg and placed in the heart's left atrial appendage, where more than 90 percent of ...
TEXARKANA, Texas (KSLA) - CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System is implementing a new heart procedure. Electrophysiologist Dr. Kevin Hayes says the Watchman procedure involves placing a permanent implant ...
To address this knowledge gap, high temporal resolution of rhythm data from cardiovascular implantable electronic devices is needed. Previous studies using implantable cardioverter‐defibrillators ...