Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of 300 patients across seven countries shows that used pacemakers, when properly ...

CHICAGO, IL—Reconditioned pacemakers carry the same low infection rate as new devices out to 90 days, according to preliminary data from the international My Heart Your Heart trial. The findings ...

As the market for leadless pacemakers grows in India, doctors point out definite advantages of the technology for heart ...

The electrophysiology team at Norton Heart & Vascular Institute has implanted the city’s first dual chamber leadless ...

A 2019 study by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, published in the journal PLOS One, found that over a two-year period the Trust dealt with 84 cases of pacemaker-related infections ...

Leadless pacemaker has saved the life of a 74-year-old woman, who had been struggling with severe complications after an infection from a previously implanted pacemaker. "We successfully implanted ...

Old” pacemakers may still work for years, so doctors are refurbishing used devices and donating them to patients in low- and middle-income countries.

In patients who could not afford new devices on their own, use of so-called "reconditioned" pacemakers met criteria for non-inferiority on the basis of infections at 90 days compared with new ...

Traditional pacemakers are connected to the heart through wires, but the new devices can be implanted directly into two ...

A global trial last year found the dual pacemaker had a 97% success rate in returning patients’ heartbeats to normal. Karen ...

Just under 3% of patients who received a new pacemaker developed an infection, as did just 1.5% of patients who received a refurbished device; that difference was not statistically significant.