Sentences with phrase «receive pacemakers»

About 600,000 patients receive pacemakers worldwide every year.

Nearly 190,000 Americans received a pacemaker in 2009, the most recent year for which data were readily available.

KSN - TVFerret receives pacemaker from K - State Veterinary Health CenterKSN - TVMANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT)-- The Veterinary Health Center at Kansas State University has conducted its first - ever surgical implant of a heart pacemaker in a ferret.

KSNTFerret receives pacemaker from K - State Veterinary Health CenterKSNTMANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT)-- The Veterinary Health Center at Kansas State University has conducted its first - ever surgical implant of a heart pacemaker in a ferret.

Angina (chest pain), any type of heart or circulatory surgery, heart attack, or received a pacemaker or stent?

However, if it is less than three months since you received the pacemaker, you will probably be postponed, but you can get a graded death benefit policy right away.

We wrote this article to help people understand how life insurers asses the risk of people who have received a pacemaker.

This is why it's so important early on during the life insurance application process that we're able to determine what the «root» cause is for why you have needed to receive a pacemaker, and what your current health is like today.

Not exact matches

* Update: On April 6 Medtronic announced that its Micra Transcatheter Pacing System had become the first leadless pacemaker to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices, such as pacemakers, that are designed to electrically stimulate the heart to function normally fail to help as many as a third of patients who receive them each year, according to some studies.

When those pacemaker cells die or stop working, the heart won't beat unless it receives an electrical shock from a pacemaker.

While still attached to its mother via the umbilical cord, the baby received a temporary pacemaker, which stabilized its dangerously low and irregular heart rate and ensured enough blood flow from the heart to the rest of its body for delivery.

All patients also received standard therapies such as drugs, heart - valve surgery, and specialized pacemakers.

This year, Joe became the first dog at AU to receive and thrive on the most advanced pacemaker available to humans.

He received a mechanical heart valve / pacemaker last year.