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Among Medicare beneficiaries, implantation was especially frequent for female patients and those undergoing tricuspid valve replacement with or without concomitant left-sided heart surgeries.

PHOENIX -- The Navitor transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR, TAVI) device was associated with a high pacemaker implantation rate in its pivotal study, but an analysis showed ways to bring that ...

A patient-specific strategy focused on device positioning during TAVR procedures with a repositionable, self-expandable transcatheter heart valve (Evolut R/PRO; Medtronic) leads to significant ...

In patients with atrial fibrillation that is refractory to drug therapy, radio-frequency ablation of the atrioventricular node and implantation of a permanent pacemaker are an alternative therapeutic ...

An aortic valve calcium score (AVCS) greater than 4510 arbitrary units independently predicts post–transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) conductive disorders requiring permanent pacemaker ...

Bottom Line: The need for a patient to have a permanent pacemaker implanted while hospitalized after undergoing a transcatheter aortic valve replacement is a complication associated with worse ...

First-AV block with fascicular or BBB or IVCD 2 (13.3%) 5 (2.6%) 0.08 First-AV block with or without IV conduction abnormalities* 4 (26.7%) 10 (5.2%) 0.01 PPM = permanent pacemaker; AT = atrial ...

Researchers are reporting early success with a temporary heart pacemaker that simply disintegrates when it's no longer needed. So far the work has been limited to animals and human heart tissue ...