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

To install a pacemaker, surgeons typically make an incision ... is connected through a vein near the collarbone. Typically the surgery takes an hour to 90 minutes. But now this surgical ...

Norway's 87-year-old Queen Sonja has left hospital after undergoing surgery to fit a pacemaker to correct an irregular heartbeat, the royal palace announced on Friday. Royal officials said in a ...

Norway's Queen Sonja, 87, will have a pacemaker inserted in a scheduled surgery later this week after suffering a heart ...