Dr. Naccarelli answers the question: 'Risks Of Implanting A Pacemaker?' — -- Question: What are the risks in having a pacemaker placed? Answer :The insertion of a pacemaker is a common medical ...

This summer, doctors at UnityPoint Health performed the QCA's first leadless pacemaker procedure. Now, Dr. Helbert Acosta ...

Typically, if an infant is receiving a pacemaker, open-chest surgery is required. Should a new prototype miniature pacemaker reach commercialization, however, all that will be required is a single ...

Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before deciding whether to have a permanent implant, reveals novel research. Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before ...

Milan, Italy - 22 June 2015: Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before deciding whether to have a permanent implant, reveals novel research presented today at EHRA EUROPACE - ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nanostim, Inc., a privately-owned developer of miniaturized, leadless pacemakers, today announced the first successful implants of a leadless pacemaker in a series ...

A 74-year-old woman in India, suffering from complications due to an infected pacemaker, has been successfully treated with a first-of-its-kind leadless pacemaker. This minimally invasive procedure, ...

A Shenandoah resident recently participated in an innovative approach to pacemaker implantation — and it was performed without a single incision to the chest. On Sept. 2 at Memorial Hermann The ...

For the past 50 years, pacemakers have hardly changed, but a new device has the potential to change how pacemakers work. The device is the size of a large vitamin and is implanted via catheter rather ...

A prototype for a miniature pacemaker, about the size of an almond, aims to make pacemaker procedures for infants less invasive, less painful, and more efficient, measured by shorter surgeries, faster ...