Procedure-related infection rates were similar with reconditioned and new pacemakers, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2025. Explaining the ...

Infection of pacemaker leads can develop into a serious systemic infection. Since investigations have shown that lead infection could originate from the site of pacemaker implantation, identification ...

UAMS patients now have a new pacemaker option that comes with a lower risk of infection. As an avid runner, Kathi Clevenger considers herself in tune with her body. When she started experiencing ...

If you have an irregular heartbeat, you may benefit from a new pacemaker device that doctors say has much fewer complications than traditional pacemakers. A survivor of polio, Barbara Wade has atrial ...

Dallas, TX - Physicians treating people with pacemakers or other implanted cardiac devices who also develop Staphylococcus aureus infections should be keenly suspicious that the device will become ...

CHICAGO, IL—Reconditioned pacemakers carry the same low infection rate as new devices out to 90 days, according to preliminary data from the international My Heart Your Heart trial. The findings ...

Risk of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection and resulting mortality hinged on the timing and extent of infection, which may ultimately come down to the type of procedure that the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A scoring system for predicting infection risk in patients considered for pacemaker or defibrillator procedures could help, case by case, with clinical decision-making, such as choice ...

The TYRX antibacterial absorbable envelope. About 250,000 people each year get pacemakers implanted to help maintain a steady heartbeat. Infection rates from the procedure are low in the U.S. But a ...

The prospective multi-centre BIO-LivIQ trial will enrol 325 patients across 60 sites worldwide.

DEAR DR. ROACH: My son had a pacemaker placed in 2013 and got it checked every four months. He developed an ulcer on his coccyx. He was being seen every two or three weeks in a wound clinic, and I was ...