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Researchers have reintroduced the gene TBX18 into an adult cardiac cell and reprogrammed it to generate pacemaker activity.

The findings challenge pacing recommendations in HFpEF with chronotropic incompetence and should highlight the disorders systemic nature, say observers.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers devised a non-invasive optogenetic and wearable cardiac pacemaker for accurate and specific control of cardiac rhythm for ≤900 beats per minute (bpm), enabled by micro-light-emitting display (LED) harness and systemic channelrhodopsin delivery.

The number of deaths and disabling strokes among patients at low surgical risk who were treated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) remained lower at three years, but not significantly lower, following the TAVR procedure compared with patients who received conventional surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), according to new data being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology.

The 3-year results show that low-surgical-risk patients undergoing aortic valve replacement continue to show lower rates of all-cause mortality and disabling stroke with TAVR compared with surgery.

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Love to use smartwatches, fitness trackers to keep a check on your health? If you are using pacemakers or other implanted cardiac electronic devices for your heart health, these wearable gadgets may inadvertently affect your heart health, warned a study.

Wearable devices that monitor heart rate and other vital signs may interfere with pacemakers, ICDs, and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices, new research suggests.

Long-term rhythm monitoring in a trial revealed six times as much bradycardia as was diagnosed in a usual-care clinical setting. What are the management implications?

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