Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...

A 59-year-old female patient presented with “suspected ventricular tachycardia” on the basis of “abnormalities in long-term ECG” (Figure 1). Cryoablation of the slow pathway had already ...

Defibrillators deliver internal shocks to the heart when their sensors detect either ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. These shocks stop the heart for a fraction of a second to give ...

When it comes to the habits that cardiologists want people to never, ever do, you might have read about not taking your blood ...

A typical pulse is 60 to 100. Roger soon learned he had a heart condition called ventricular tachycardia, also called V-tach or VT. "Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormal rapid rhythm arising ...

Medtronic has received Food and Drug Administration approval to study its Affera mapping and ablation system and Sphere-9 catheter to treat sustained ventricular tachycardia, an abnormal rhythm of ...

Barring unforeseen rivals, Imricor will have a 100 per cent share of the MRI-guided cardiac catheter ablation market, writes ...

WASHINGTON DC: Cardiologists and radiation oncologists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis pioneered the use of radiation therapy -- a tactic generally employed against cancer ...

At the European Society of Cardiology, Coventry Hospital in the UK presented data on the use of VIVO in very complex ventricular tachycardia patients. This center has now enrolled over forty patients ...

Purpose: Data collected from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Freedom of Information Act are presented to help clinicians understand the data prompting the black-box warning for ...

"This meeting provides a small, but targeted group of physicians that focus on treating ventricular arrhythmias. VIVO enables these physicians to better plan their ventricular ablation procedures ...