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2. Artificial cardiac pacemaker - Wikipedia

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   Each pulse causes the targeted chamber(s) to contract and pump blood, [3] thus regulating the function of the electrical conduction system of the heart. The primary purpose of a pacemaker is to maintain an even heart rate, either because the heart's natural cardiac pacemaker provides an inadequate or irregular heartbeat, or because there is a ...

3. Cardiomyoplasty - Wikipedia

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   Cardiomyoplasty is a surgical procedure in which healthy muscle from another part of the body is wrapped around the heart to provide support for the failing heart. [1] Most often the latissimus dorsi muscle is used for this purpose. A special pacemaker is implanted to make the skeletal muscle contract.

4. Senning procedure - Wikipedia

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   The Senning procedure is an atrial switch heart operation performed to treat transposition of the great arteries. It is named after its inventor, the Swedish cardiac surgeon Åke Senning (1915–2000), also known for implanting the first permanent cardiac pacemaker in 1958.

5. Cardiac contractility modulation - Wikipedia

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   As with conventional pacemaker therapy, the cardiac contractility modulation device cannot be implanted if the leads cannot be positioned appropriately in the heart. In cases where there is an artificial heart valve between the right atrium and ventricle (a mechanical prosthetic tricuspid valve), the valve function could be greatly affected by ...

6. New Pacemaker Zaps Your Heart Before Melting Away - AOL

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   However, the heart’s beating can go haywire in certain medical conditions.This is where pacemakers come in. These devices are typically hooked up to the heart and resets it using electrical ...

7. Arnold Schwarzenegger just got a pacemaker. Here's what to ...

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   Pacemakers are also sometimes used temporarily when someone is recovering from a heart attack or heart surgery, but in this case only the wires are inserted into the body; the pacemaker box stays ...

8. Cardiac pacemaker - Wikipedia

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   An artificial cardiac pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the natural cardiac pacemaker) or just pacemaker is an implanted medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to the chambers of the heart either the upper atria, or lower ventricles to cause the targeted chambers to contract and ...

9. Norway's king to receive permanent pacemaker for his heart - AOL

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   Norway's King Harald will receive a permanent pacemaker device to help compensate for a low heart rate, the royal court said on Monday, after the monarch was flown to Oslo from Malaysia on Sunday ...