Newly diagnosed mental disorders are associated with increased mortality and adverse clinical outcomes in patients with permanent pacemakers.

Three new studies suggest that conduction abnormalities leading to permanent pacemaker implantation remain a frequent occurrence after TAVR that can be predicted by various patient, procedural, and ...

Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are more likely to need a permanent pacemaker if they are male, have abnormal baseline conduction, or experience atrioventricular ...

An aortic valve calcium score (AVCS) greater than 4510 arbitrary units independently predicts post–transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) conductive disorders requiring permanent pacemaker ...

Seventy-two patients (1.4%) required permanent pacemaker implantation. Indications for PPM implantation included: (i) complete atrioventricular (AV) block in 59; of these, 35 were immediate in onset ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who had transcatheter aortic valve replacement, there was no difference in survival or adverse CV ...

Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before deciding whether to have a permanent implant, reveals novel research. Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before ...

Needing a permanent pacemaker after surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) was linked to mortality in Swedish registry data. Such risk was not apparent in the first few years: all-cause mortality ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to identify trends in cardiac tamponade among patients who ...

Among Medicare beneficiaries, implantation was especially frequent for female patients and those undergoing tricuspid valve replacement with or without concomitant left-sided heart surgeries.

Implanting permanent pacemakers following TAVR could worsen outcomes: 4 findings Implanting a permanent pacemaker after transcatheter aortic valve replacement is associated with poor outcomes, such as ...