Abbott is teaming up with AtaCor Medical to develop a next-generation implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) designed ...

Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable defibrillator that has helped countless heart patients live longer and healthier, has died at age 89.

Medtronic has received U.S. regulatory approval to sell a new implantable defibrillator that can be placed outside of the heart and veins to treat SCA — sudden cardiac arrest — an electrical problem ...

Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

In patients younger than 19 years with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), appropriate shocks were more common with a lower weight (indicating younger age), although adverse events did not ...

Nearly 500 hospitals have been ordered to pay the government more than $250 million to resolve allegations they allowed cardiac devices to be implanted in Medicare patients who were not eligible for ...

Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School demonstrates that using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging—known as CMR phenotyping—can help identify patients with suspected ...

More than three decades have transpired since the inception of transtelephonic pacemaker monitoring. 1 3 This modality was identified as a useful method for tracking the function of pacemaker systems, ...