Background: Approximately 20,000 permanent pacemakers (PPMs) are implanted annually for bradycardia or atrioventricular (AV) block after cardiac surgery. Little is known about the long-term pacing and ...

Background: The incidence of conduction disease requiring permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation following aortic valve replacement (AVR) ranges from 3% to 6%. Data concerning the potential risks for ...

CHICAGO -- Newer devices don't mean that the maturing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) field has completely solved its problem with conduction disturbances requiring permanent pacemaker ...

PARIS, France—In patients who develop conduction abnormalities in conjunction with TAVI, attaching a permanent pacemaker (PPM) outside the body for 1 month may be a temporary solution that enables ...

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

Over the long term, patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who require a permanent pacemaker after alcohol septal ablation (ASA) fare just as well as those who don’t, a ...

Bradycardia and a pectoralis twitch in a pacemaker patient Surgery is required for a woman whose right ventricle was perforated by the tip on the lead of her permanent pacemaker. Ms. K, age 50 years, ...