Posts Tagged ‘pacemaker’
Inova offers two new, leading-edge technologies to treat and prevent AFib
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common type of irregular heart rhythm, affecting more than 12 million people in the United States. When a person is experiencing AFib, the heart’s top two chambers are not beating in sync with the heart’s lower two chambers. This means that blood is not flowing through the heart efficiently,…
Read MoreInova installs world’s smallest pacemaker: First in Northern Virginia
Keeping Pace A pacemaker is a small device whose main purpose is to prevent the heart from beating too slowly. Recently, electrophysiologist Aysha Arshad, MD, and a team of experts at Inova Heart and Vascular Institute (IHVI), implanted what is believed to be the world’s smallest pacemaker. Inova is the first to implant such a…
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