Sentences with phrase «ablation procedure»

# 300,000 for a man who suffered complete heart block, requiring the implantation of a permanent pacemaker, as a consequence of a negligently performed catheter ablation procedure.

The researchers caution that a more randomized and controlled clinical trial is needed before doctors can reliably use their cardiac imaging analysis routinely with patients, but if confirmed, they say the method should reduce ablation procedures unlikely to work, along with the procedures» substantial costs and complication risks.

This will reduce the chances of complications occurring during routine but skilled procedures such as ablation procedures in the heart.

In these cases, local ablation procedures have less chance of success.

Emory neuropsychologist Dan Drane, who probes the effects of epilepsy surgery on memory and language abilities, had identified Olds as a good example of how the more precise stereotactic laser ablation procedure pioneered by Gross can preserve those cognitive functions, in contrast to an open resection.

Defended an electro - physiologist in a death case, allegedly due to the failure to review a chest x-ray taken prior to a cardiac ablation procedure.

PURE EP is a surface electrocardiogram and intracardiac multichannel recording system that acquires, processes, and displays high fidelity cardiac recordings required during electrophysiology studies and catheter ablation procedures.

However, an estimated 20 to 30 percent of the ablation procedures performed each year fail to prevent irregular heart rhythms, and cardiologists have long sought various biological or anatomical factors to help them determine in advance which patients are the best candidates for ablation.

An ablation procedure isn't cheap, says Ciuffo, sometimes costing as much as a new car.

The cost of cardiac imaging typically performed before the ablation procedure is a fraction of the cost of the procedure.

Di Biase said the type and extent of the ablation procedure had a marked impact on the procedure's success rate.

In addition, many patients in the study required more than one ablation procedure to achieve freedom from atrial fibrillation.

Tung chose this specialty after undergoing an ablation procedure himself, in his early 20s, to correct an innocent arrhythmia.

The Hartford researchers speculate that the ablation procedure itself, most likely the anaesthesia, facilitates the transfer of magnesium from serum to intracellular space.