Patients with atrioventricular (AV) block who don’t have an indication for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) do better when treated with conduction-system pacing versus right ventricular septal ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Conduction abnormalities like complete heart block (CHB) and left bundle branch block (LBBB) remain common in today’s TAVI patients, with some facing pacemaker implantation or even ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) have released a clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and treatment of ...

Among the 668 study patients (mean age 68.2 ± 15.4 years, 337 women), 108 patients (16.2%) were receiving AV conduction impairing medications during the diagnosis of AV block. Of 108 patients, 29 ...

Mobitz type I, also known as the Wenckebach block, is a subtype of second-degree atrioventricular (AV) block. Mobitz type I is a type of conduction disorder, which happens when the electrical signals ...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the Sheba Medical Center where early Sunday morning he had a cardiac pacemaker implanted. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images) When you ...

Figure 1: Measurement of gene transfer efficacy. Figure 2: Reduction in heart rate during atrial fibrillation after Gα i2 gene transfer. This study is the first report of intracoronary site-specific ...

INJURY to the invisible subendocardial conduction system during surgical closure of congenital defects in the ventricular septum is an uncommon but extremely grave complication. 1,2 Impalement of ...

Although there have previously been no reported cases of an interaction between trazodone and omeprazole, a new report is believed to be the first instance of reversible second-degree Mobitz type 1 ...