Often, heart block is treated with a pacemaker, which regulates the heart's rhythm. Such devices are rare in children. Only about 1 in 20,000 babies are born with heart block, and of those ...

Gene Hackman's pacemaker would have alerted his physician if an "urgent" event occurred, according to cardiologist Dr. Christopher Davis. During an interview with Fox News Digital, Davis explained ...

Often, heart block is treated with a pacemaker, which regulates the heart's rhythm. Such devices are rare in children. Only about 1 in 20,000 babies are born with heart block, and of those ...

Background: Conduction disturbances requiring permanent pacemaker implantation after heart surgery occur in about 1.5% of patients. Early pacemaker implantation may reduce morbidity and ...

The safety of these devices with regard to their interference with implanted pacemakers is as yet unknown and is the point of interest in this study. Methods and Results: The study comprised 100 ...