Biventricular pacing is an excellent option for certain patients with advanced HF. Also known as “cardiac resynchronization therapy,” biventricular pacing has been shown to improve HF symptoms ...

Roth [5] reported the cases of three patients with cardiac pacemakers who subsequently underwent two-stage sacral neurostimulator implantation, and of another two patients who were successfully ...

Given that most patients have ICD backup as part of their cardiac resynchronization device, a right-ventricular ICD lead is going to be present.

Although biventricular pacing does not restore the physiologic conduction pattern, it eliminates the delay in electrical activation of the left ventricular free wall. 7 The duration of the QRS ...

In the ICD group, there were 101 single-chamber, 46 dual-chamber, and 4 biventricular pacing devices. Right ventricular sensing leads, which had true bipolar sensing configuration, were used in 52 ...

Patients received a cardiac-resynchronization pacemaker or implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) (the latter if the patient had an indication for defibrillation therapy) and were randomly ...

Learn about two devices -- an ICD and pacemaker -- that can help you keep your heart beating correctly.

It's really just two groups who would switch from an ICD to a pacemaker, he noted: patients who have a shorter life expectancy, and those who have a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator ...

Technology failures, design flaws, and software bugs can be found in the most unexpected places. Now, researchers have developed a method for remotely compromising heart pacemakers surgically ...

Doctors at GB Pant Hospital recently implanted a bi-ventricular pacemaker — a device that paces both sides of the lower chambers of the heart — to save the life of a 44-year-old woman ...