Medical workers implant a magnetically levitated biventricular ... [Photo/Xinhua] WUHAN -- A 7-year-old Chinese boy suffering from end-stage heart failure has become the world's youngest patient ...

On March 30, a medical team from Wuhan Union Hospital implants a magnetically levitated artificial heart in a child. [Photo by Liu Kunwei/For chinadaily.com.cn] Chinese doctors have successfully ...

Heart failure was keeping Chuck Moon from living life to the fullest, but that all changed when he took advantage of a new ...

A novel device without transvenous leads performs well in a series of pilot studies. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated the superiority of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs ...

We report the case of a 51-year-old female who underwent placement of an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) and a biventricular pacemaker and who immediately postoperatively experienced ...

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A heavy electrical charge delivered by a taser could cause a pacemaker or implanted defibrillator to malfunction, researchers ...

The Philips HeartStart OnSite Defibrillator is designed to be the ... HeartStart OnSite includes proven Philips technologies for heart rhythm assessment (SMART Analysis) and defibrillation energy ...

A heavy electrical charge delivered by a taser could cause a pacemaker or implanted defibrillator to malfunction, researchers report in the journal Heart Rhythm. As a result, the implant might ...

SYDNEY – An Australian man lived for 105 days with a titanium heart that uses magnetic levitation technology before receiving a donated human heart, the longest period for a patient with the ...