Permanent Pacemaker News Today

Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, is getting a permanent pacemaker on Tuesday, the palace said, adding that the monarch will followingly remain in hospital for a few days. In a brief statement, the royal household said the 87-year-old would get it at Oslo's university hospital, Rikshospitalet. Last month, Harald fell ill during a private holiday with his wife Queen Sonja on the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi.

Read about the rare operation performed by super specialty doctors at Super Speciality Hospital in Indore for pacemaker implantation in a 66-year-old woman. The procedure, known as trans hepatic percutaneous permanent pacemaker implantation, involves inserting the pacemaker through the liver.

Italy: A recent study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions demonstrated the frequent need for new permanent pacemaker implantation (PPI) after TAVR with contemporary self-expanding valves...

Insurer AIG has introduced two levels of protection for its children’s critical illness cover options. The existing Enhanced Adult policy has been renamed as Enhanced Children’s Cover and will retain the same high quality child cover.