Healio

Leadless pacemaker for patients with atrioventricular block nets FDA approval

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The new leadless pacemaker (Micra AV, Medtronic) is indicated for the treatment of patients with ...
Forbes

Israel PM Netanyahu Gets Emergency Pacemaker, Here’s What AV Heart Block Is

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the Sheba Medical Center where early Sunday morning he had a cardiac pacemaker implanted. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images) When you ...
Healio

Male sex, conduction disturbances, AV block predict need for permanent pacemaker after TAVR

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Factors including male sex, baseline conduction disturbances and intraprocedural atrioventricular block were ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Dual‑chamber pacemakers for symptomatic bradycardia due to sick sinus syndrome and/or atrioventricular block

This guidance refers only to pacing for the primary indications of sick sinus syndrome and/or atrioventricular block, and does not cover more complex pacing indications. Dual-chamber pacing is ...
Medscape

Consider Dual-Chamber Pacemaker for Sinus-Node Dysfunction or AV Block, Experts Say

August 1, 2012 (Calgary, Alberta) — A joint consensus statement issued by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) recommends that patients with ...
Medscape

Management of Patients With Drug-Induced Atrioventricular Block

Objective:To identify the frequency of atrioventricular (AV) conduction improvement after discontinuation of the culprit drug in patients with AV block. Background:AV blockers are considered as ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Dual‑chamber pacemakers for symptomatic bradycardia due to sick sinus syndrome and/or atrioventricular block

There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of mortality or stroke with dual‑chamber pacing compared with single‑chamber ventricular pacing in the 4 large RCTs. PASE and CTOPP ...