Implanting pacemakers in those who meet criteria for prophylactic use appears to be overtreating some patients.
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have shown that combining distal protection devices with the prophylactic use of the drug nicardipine can reduce the risk of complications following ...
The FDA issued a Class I recall — the most serious recall classification — for some of Medtronic’s cardiac resynchronization therapy and implantable cardioverter defibrillators. Here are four things ...
Pacing device implants (PDIs) or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) may be placed to treat or prevent the consequences of amyloid deposits (heart failure and conduction disturbances) in ...
Show More From the Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey; Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Department ...
AstraZeneca started late-stage trials on Saturday of an experimental long-acting monoclonal antibody combination drug it hopes could be used as a so-called prophylactic to prevent COVID-19 infection ...
Urokinase administration every 2 weeks significantly affects the rate of occlusive events in ports and tunneled catheters and of infectious events in external catheters compared with heparin ...