With heart failure, the heart becomes enlarged and its electrical systems become stretched. This interferes with how the parts of the heart coordinate to contract and pump blood, making it inefficient ...

Even after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety notice and recall, manufacturing defects in certain cardiac rhythm management (CRM) devices led to premature battery depletion that ...

A biventricular pacemaker is a device that can help the heart beat more efficiently when a person has heart failure or an irregular heartbeat. When a person has heart failure or an irregular heartbeat ...

For people who are having irregular heartbeats, a pacemaker is usually the recommended device to solve this health problem. As its name suggests, it regulates the heartbeat's pace to maintain the ...