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 ...

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 ...

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 new review paper ...

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 ...

Multiple implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks can impair a patient's quality of life, and the long-term prognosis associated with shocks remains undefined. In 2008, two published papers ...

Primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) equipped for antitachycardia pacing (ATP) offered fewer first device shocks but perhaps at a cost, the APPRAISE ATP randomized trial ...

(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 ...

A new, multicenter study demonstrated that ablation treatment may be a better first option than medication for many heart attack survivors who develop abnormal electrical short circuits in their heart ...

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).

The subcutaneous implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) was designed to avoid complications related to the transvenous ICD lead by using an entirely extrathoracic placement. Evidence comparing ...