June 18 (UPI) --People at a risk for heart failure often turn to a defibrillator to remove that threat, but for some patients that's not always the answer, new research shows. For patients with heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Abbott announced that a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator and an implantable cardioverter ...

The results of COMPANION also demonstrate that CRT or CRT-D, in combination with optimal pharmacologic therapy (OPT), each respectively reduced the rate of death or hospitalization from any cause by ...

Now Offering Both 1.5 and 3 Tesla Indications for MR-Conditional ICMs, Pacemakers, ICDs and CRT-Ds "The ability to provide CRT-D patients with access to MRI scans is a significant, necessary ...

San Francisco, CA - Heart-failure patients with implanted cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices are more likely to die if they aren't also taking beta blockers, mostly due to an increased ...

Shanghai, China - The first patient implants of the Boston Scientific Corporation COGNIS™ cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) were successfully performed in China’s Zhejiang ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy, women were less likely to die or have a ventricular event than ...

DUBLIN, Jan. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced it has received CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark for its Cobalt™ and Crome™ portfolio of implantable ...

A Minnesota-based company is recalling more than 348,000 defibrillators over concerns that they may not work. Medtronic, which has its executive headquarters based in Minneapolis, initiated the recall ...

The world's largest medical device company has acknowledged that many of its implanted cardiac defibrillators use an unencrypted wireless protocol that could allow an attacker to change the settings ...

Hundreds of thousands of implantable heart defibrillators made by Minnesota's St. Jude Medical are getting cybersecurity software updates, while older versions of the devices may have their wireless ...

Certain groups of heart failure patients may see improved heart function with cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D) if traditional implantable cardioverter defibrillator ...