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Do diabetes, metabolic syndrome or their association equally affect biventricular function? A tissue Doppler study

Indian shares gain for 4th day; Reliance, Sun Pharma lead

MUMBAI, April 2 (Reuters) - Indian shares inched higher for the fourth session on Tuesday with select blue-chips including Reliance Industries gaining on optimism about delivering good numbers while S...

Data From More Than 100,000 Boston Scientific Implantable Defibrillators Show Battery Longevity Projections Of Nine To 13 Years

NATICK, Mass., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- New data from 100,438 patients with Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchro...

Biventricular Pacing Better for Heart Failure Patients

Sending pacemaker signals to both ventricles instead of just the right ventricle produces better outcomes in patients with atrioventricular block and mild-to-moderate heart failure. Reuters Health I...

Portable Artificial Heart Driver Helps Live a Normal Life

A new study shows that patients with biventricular failure who receive a portable device to power their artificial heart...

India's BSE index ends above 19,000; Reliance, ADAG firms gain

* BSE ends 0.93 pct up, NSE 0.77 pct higher * Reliance Industries, Reliance Comm in $221 mln telecom pact * Sun Pharma gains on report of price hike by unit By Manoj Dharra MUMBAI, April 2 (Reuters) -...

BiV Pacing vs RV Pacing in AV Block

The study showed that patients randomized to biventricular pacing had a significantly lower incidence of the primary end point, a composite of all-cause mortality, hospitalization for heart...

Replace RV Pacing With BiV in AV-Block Heart Failure

The trial shows significant survival gains when biventricular pacing, now so successful for resynchronization in long-QRS systolic heart failure, replaces right ventricular pacing in HF patients with...

Transvenous Extraction Performance of Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene Covered ICD Leads in Comparison to Traditional ICD Leads in Humans.

Background: In the Endotak Reliance G defibrillating leads (Guidant Corporation, St. Paul, MN, USA), coils are covered with expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) to prevent tissue ingrowth. The aim...

Predictors for biventricular repair in pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum.

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum (PA-IVS) is a complex congenital heart defect with a large variety of right heart-sided morphologies. METHODS: We undertook a retrospective...

Aerobic fitness does not influence the biventricular response to whole-body passive heat stress.

We examined biventricular function during passive heat stress in endurance trained (ET) and untrained (UT) men to evaluate whether aerobic fitness alters the volumetric response. Body temperature was...

Isolated left ventricular pacing results in worse long-term clinical outcome when compared with biventricular pacing: a single-centre randomized study.

Aims The objective of this study was to compare long-term clinical effects of biventricular pacing with isolated left ventricular pacing. Methods and results Forty consecutive patients with idiopathic...

The hybrid procedure for the borderline left ventricle.

IntroductionIn patients with varying degrees of left heart hypoplasia, it is often difficult to determine whether the left heart structures are adequate in size to support biventricular circulation. H...