A 75-year-old woman suffering from sick sinus syndrome has successfully undergone a breakthrough leadless pacemaker implant at a Delhi hospital. This minimally invasive procedure significantly reduces ...
Although some studies have demonstrated that, given appropriate precautions, MRI can be safely performed in patients with selected implantable pacemakers, MRI in pacemaker patients is still ...
We therefore recommend pacemaker implantation after cardiac surgery for patients who are pacemaker dependent after surgery and whose spontaneous rhythm does not recover by postoperative day 5.
For most of the time that this patient was maintained on the intracardiac pacemaker he was kept at a rate of 60 beats per minute, somewhat more than double his idioventricular rate (Fig.