You will get medicine before the procedure. This helps you relax and helps prevent pain. The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) -UnityPoint Health – Trinity Heart Center has reached a new milestone in cardiac care by performing the Quad Cities’ first leadless pacemaker procedure, offering patients a ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT)—Heart Pacemakers have been around for decades, but newer options are becoming available. Novant Health officials say the procedure to give a patient a heartmaker is relatively ...

During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady “lub-dub” that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that rhythm ...

VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) -South Georgia Medical Center (SGMC) Cardiologist Center performed their first-ever inter cardiac Mica Pacemaker Wednesday on an 86-year-old patient who was having severe heart ...

Your heart has an internal pacemaker called the sinus node. It's a group of cells, located on top of your heart, that sends electrical signals into the heart and controls your heartbeat. Sometimes, ...

Pacemaker implantation is a procedure that helps regulate irregular heart rhythms. The common conditions leading to the procedure in women differ from those in men. Following pacemaker implantation, ...

The incidence of implantation of a permanent pacemaker immediately after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) increased significantly over a period of 6 years in Spain, and this rising trend ...

PADUCAH, Ky. (KFVS) - Baptist Health Paducah recently became the first hospital in the region to offer a pacemaker that is about the size of a large multivitamin. Cardiologist J. Kenneth Ford, MD, ...