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 ...
We retrospectively analyzed two groups of paroxysmal AF-related tachycardia-bradycardia syndrome patients who underwent catheter ablation of AF (ABL group) or pacemaker implantation (PM group) at our ...
The occurrence of high-grade conduction disturbances after alcohol septal ablation (ASA) did not translate into worse long-term survival for people with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), ...
<cutline_leadin>‘PUSHING THE LIMITS’:</cutline_leadin> Bill Bogard, 76, bikes 150 miles a week. <252><137>After open-heart surgery, he had a pacemaker implanted in his chest in 2008. But when his ...
Why is cardiac ablation done? In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Pradeep Kumar D, Senior Consultant - Interventional Cardiology at Aster CMI Hospital in Bangalore, explained, “Radio frequency ...
Researchers at The University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust have discovered a backup natural pacemaker, which is able to generate a pulse and control the heart rate. The ...
Background: Symptomatic prolonged sinus pauses on termination of atrial fibrillation (AF) are an accepted indication for pacemaker implantation. We evaluated the outcome of AF ablation in patients ...