Micah Clayborne was diagnosed with Danon disease, a rare condition, after complaining of chest pains. He needed a heart ...

Pacemaker placement is surgery to put a pacemaker in your chest. This surgery may be done if you have bradycardia (a slow heart rate). A pacemaker is a small, battery-powered device. It sends ...

It might be possible for people with an older pacemaker to safely get an MRI after all. A new study suggests that avoiding a scan of the chest and reprogramming the pacemaker before and after the ...

The doctor will thread the pacemaker wires (called “leads”) through a blood vessel into your heart. Then, they will make a small cut in your chest. They will insert the pacemaker just under ...

The world’s tiniest pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and ...

A pacemaker works by sending electrical impulses to the heart to maintain a regular heartbeat. The generator is connected to the heart via leads, which detect the heart's natural electrical activity.

A pacemaker protype the size of an almond designed to make procedures for infants less invasive, ... due to their small chest cavity and narrow blood vessels," Kumthekar said in a press release.

A Light-Controlled, Self-Powered Revolution. Traditional temporary pacemakers involve a tangle of wires that exit the body through the chest, connecting to an external power source.

The current standard in temporary pacemakers (called an “epicardial” pacemaker) involves sewing electrodes to the heart via wires, which then protrude out of the patient’s chest and connect ...

A month before turning 34, I received an unexpected birthday gift: a cloud-connected pacemaker. It sits in a tiny pocket in the left side of my chest, just above my heart. Silently and diligently ...

A dissolvable pacemaker that’s smaller than a grain of rice and powered by light could become an invaluable tool for saving the lives of newborn infants., The device can be implanted ...

A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University could play a sizable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who developed it.