St. Jude Medical has received European approval for the company’s AnalyST implantable defibrillator, featuring continuous ST segment monitoring, a technology that can potentially lead to more timely ...

St. Jude Medical has received approval from the Japanese authorities for its AnalyST implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) with ST Monitoring. Apart from the normal functions of an ICD, this ...

The REFINE-ICD results highlight the need to find better ways to identify at-risk patients who might benefit, one expert says ...

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Remote monitoring of patients with implantable cardiac devices reduced the mortality rate for cardiac patients by 50 percent and improved their clinical status by nearly 10 percent in a randomized ...

More than three decades have transpired since the inception of transtelephonic pacemaker monitoring. 1 3 This modality was identified as a useful method for tracking the function of pacemaker systems, ...

Increased potassium intake and dietary guidance reduced risk for adverse events in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator and may be an affordable intervention to reduce overall CV ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cardiologists group called for closer monitoring of the performance of wire leads that connect implanted defibrillators and pacemakers to the heart in the wake of malfunctions ...

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Equal representation revealed important data. About 13% of men in the study had experienced a life-threatening heart rhythm ...