Needing a permanent pacemaker after surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) was linked to mortality in Swedish registry data. Such risk was not apparent in the first few years: all-cause mortality ...

Editor's Note: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration classified Guidant's action as a class 1 recall on July 22, 2005. July 19, 2005 — Guidant Corp. has warned healthcare professionals and consumers ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall correction for certain Boston Scientific ACCOLADE pacemakers and cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers after identifying a software- ...

Iowa State basketball coach Fred Hoiberg is scheduled to have his pacemaker replaced after he says the device started to act up. Hoiberg, 41, was forced to retire from the NBA in 2005 after learning ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg is scheduled to undergo a medical procedure Friday to have his pacemaker replaced, the athletic department announced Monday. Hoiberg, ...

For patients with transvenous pacemaker leads, transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) can be performed safely with a low risk for periprocedural complications, according to a new ...

Patients who undergo minimally invasive heart valve replacement, known as TAVR, sometimes develop heart rhythm problems that necessitate placement of a permanent pacemaker. However, when a pacemaker ...

Researchers have examined long-term outcomes in patients who received pacemaker implantations after transcatheter aortic valve replacement through their groin. The result showed no significant ...

A little heart trouble is no match for "The Terminator." Arnold Schwarzenegger shared on his "Arnold's Pump Club" podcast that he had undergone surgery to install a pacemaker last week. Stream Los ...