The sinoatrial node (SAN) is the primary pacemaker of the heart and controls heart rate throughout life. Failure of SAN function due to congenital disease or aging results in slowing of the heart rate ...
Adam Taylor is affiliated with the Anatomical Society. Your heart beats around 60 times a minute, delivering nutrients and removing waste from every cell in your body. It has been doing this since you ...
Electric pacemakers can soon be replaced with biologic pacemakers which were developed using sinotrial (SA) node pacemaker cells. These cardiac cells were grown from human embryonic stem cells. A ...
The term bradycardia refers to an abnormally slow heart rate, of under 60 beats per minute (bpm). The heart has a complex system of nerves that conduct the electrical impulses fired by the sino-atrial ...
In patients with atrial fibrillation that is refractory to drug therapy, radio-frequency ablation of the atrioventricular node and implantation of a permanent pacemaker are an alternative therapeutic ...
The SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect specialized pacemaker cells that maintain the heart's rhythmic beat, setting off a self-destruction process within the cells, according to a preclinical study. The ...
An increasing number of reports suggest that cardiac arrhythmias are frequent clinical features of COVID-19. A New York-based team of researchers explored the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the ...
considered the world's smallest pacemaker. The team of doctors from the Asia Pacific Medical Center-Aklan implanted the device on a 69-year-old male diagnosed with sick sinus syndrome, a heart ...