It’s likely that someone you know has a pacemaker. An estimated 3 million Americans live with pacemakers, which send electronic pulses to help their hearts maintain a normal beat and rhythm. Since ...

April 23, 2026 Bridge Plus was designed for rare, life-threatening emergencies to help control bleeding during superior vena cava (SVC) tears, ...

Typical balloon placement and pretreatment sites relative to pacing/defibrillation leads. Photo Credit: J Am Coll Cardiol EP. Central Illustration (adapted). Pacemaker and defibrillator leads encased ...

SPONSORED — Lead extraction is a specialized procedure used to remove wires from pacemakers or defibrillators when they become infected, damaged, or unsafe to leave in place. Over time, these thin ...

Roughly one out of every five patients with an implantable device who is undergoing lead extraction will have incidental thrombi found on the transvenous leads, new prospective data show. The clots ...

Soggy and possibly stormy start to May. Drier weather isn't far away. Click and watch the forecast video for details. This time last year, the average gas price on the coast sat at two dollars and ...

A novel risk stratification tool may predict lead extractions that are best performed in an operating room and those at lower risk that can be safely done in the device laboratory. "Although ...