WASHINGTON, DC — A new consensus statement released this week by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and nine other medical societies provides physicians practical clinical advice on cardiac implantable ...

Typical balloon placement and pretreatment sites relative to pacing/defibrillation leads. Photo Credit: J Am Coll Cardiol EP. Central Illustration (adapted). Pacemaker and defibrillator leads encased ...

Lead extraction procedures are becoming common owing to the growing number of implantations in an ageing population, frequent device infections, and lead recalls and malfunctions The most common ...

Less than one out of every eight patients with infective endocarditis and a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) underwent recommended transvenous lead removal/extraction over a recent 4-year ...

Infections associated with pacemaker or implantable defibrillator systems, even when limited to the subcutaneous pocket, generally call for removal of the pulse-generator and leads. But alternative ...

Introduction: As the global population ages and the use of cardiac implantable electronic devices increases, transvenous lead extraction (TLE) is being performed more frequently in elderly patients.

Johnson & Johnson shocked the medtech industry early last year when it announced it would acquire Shockwave Medical, a specialist in the intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) market. Shockwave had a huge ...