New Parkinson's surgical procedure shows lasting benefits, according to Emory researchers
... advanced PD. Because DBS required the use of two pacemakers (one for each side of the brain) and connecting wires, it is more costly than the lesioning procedures used in Cuba. Additional costs stem from the need to periodically adjust the settings of the pacemaker devices that drive the stimulators. "Assum...Tissue-engineered cells transmit electrical signals in animal hearts
...chest so it can expand as the child grows, and the pacemakers or their wires often fail, which results in further surgery. "These patients usually face several repair or replacement operations over the course of their lives," Cowan says. Researchers extracted small amounts of skeletal muscle from the rats to ...Device acts as heart's security system
...smit data to a doctor via a telephone hookup. Some pacemakers use the same type of technology to relay data, but the information is limited mostly to the condition of the pacemaker and its battery. One patient in the Ohio State study lives about one and one-half hours away from Columbus. She is doing extraordin...Heart attacks rose at Brooklyn hospital after terrorist attack
...ans to extend the study to patients who have heart pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) implanted devices delivering electric shocks to the heart to correct rhythm disturbances. "A computer can be used to check an ICD to see how many shocks occurred before, during and after Sept. 11," ...Detection at a distance for more sensitive MRI
... encoding some subjects, for example patients with pacemakers or metal implants. Signals encoded in a weak field can only be recovered by a high-field detector. "Remote detection allows us to combine the ability to obtain rich information about a variety of interesting samples with sensitive detection," Seeley...Time-reversal acoustics research promises medical breakthroughs
...recharging the batteries of implanted devices like pacemakers without performing surgery. Dr. Alexander Sutin, an acoustics expert and senior scientist at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ), is a co-author of six papers to be presented at the Acoustical Society of America's 75th Anniversary Meeting i...Heart arrhythmias easily treated, yet few know risks
...thmias can be treated with medication, implantable pacemakers or defibrillators," he said. "Supraventricular tachycardia can be treated very successfully with catheter ablation." In fall 2002, Sandra had an outpatient catheter ablation procedure. Through catheters (small tubes) inserted into arteries...Pacemakers could protect patients with epilepsy from sudden unexplained death
...of epileptic seizures, and that the use of cardiac pacemakers by some epilepsy patients could play a future role in protecting against sudden unexplained death. Patients with epilepsy are at risk of sudden unexplained death. Irregular heart rhythm as a result of neurological dysfunction during seizures is thoug...Animal studies show stem cells might make biological pacemaker
...promising biological alternative to the electronic pacemakers used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Electronic pacemakers are used in children and adults with certain heart conditions that interfere with a normal heartbeat...Mayo Clinic researchers find PDAs okay with pacemakers
...l effects of electromagnetic interference on heart pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. In th...ophistication of sensing circuitry in contemporary pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, these devices are still susceptible to electromagnetic ...Patients with previous heart attacks may not benefit from pacemaker implant
Current criteria for implantation of pacemakers fail to accurately identify which patients will or...ive heart failure who are treated with specialized pacemakers a costly and invasive treatment to electrically resynchronize their hearts fail to respond....News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...ound that modern, implanted heart devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators are safe for use in magnetic r...month period, the Hopkins team tested 18 different pacemakers and 15 implantable defibrillators previously found safe in animal experiments. In a study of 33 pat...