You may have heard of two little devices that doctors use to help treat heart problems: pacemakers and ICDs (implantable cardioverter defibrillators). They use them when you have a type of heart ...

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared at drjohnm.org. The purpose of this post is to clarify important issues about cardiac devices as they relate to deactivation. As I wrote yesterday, Paula ...

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the top news from the virtual Heart Rhythm Society Annual Scientific Sessions. Readers were most interested in radiation treatment for ventricular ...

The rate of major complications associated with cardiac implantable electronic-device (CIED) implantation varied widely among different centers in recent data from Australia and New Zealand. The rate ...

In the normal heart, the lower chambers (ventricles) pump at the same time and in sync with the heart's upper chambers (atria). Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), also called biventricular ...