Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A single burst of antitachycardia pacing (ATP) reduced risk for shocks in patients with an implantable ...

The first randomized trial to investigate preventive ablation of a potential arrhythmogenic substrate associated with coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) in patients at high risk of ventricular ...

MIT-alumni-founded Thermedical advances novel deep-tissue ablation technology to address critical unmet needs in severe ventricular tachycardia ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Ablation soon after first implantable cardioverter defibrillator shock for ventricular tachycardia ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are the mainstay of treatment for patients at risk of ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. Although these devices reduce mortality, defibrillator ...

December 20, 2006 (Atlanta, GA) - The emotional well-being of ICD recipients makes it imperative that clinicians take steps to reduce the occurrence of both appropriate and inappropriate ICD shocks, a ...

Combined data from five implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) trials suggest that it is the underlying arrhythmic disorder, rather than the ICD therapy itself, that affects mortality in these ...

BARCELONA -- The early global experience with an extravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) saw it working safely to prevent sudden cardiac deaths, albeit amid an excess of ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with cardiomyopathy, use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) is associated with significantly lower incidence of ...

WASHINGTON -- Researchers made a strong case that earlier was better when it comes to catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardias (VTs) in people with implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs).

A case study of a patient who experienced inappropriate shocks from her defibrillator is presented in Heart Rhythm Case Reports, an official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, published by Elsevier.