As part of The Heart Beat series of interviews with Dr. Mehdi Razavi and his team, recent graduate of the Rice...
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Texas Heart Institute (THI) physician-scientist and innovator, Mehdi Razavi, MD, Director of THI’s Electrophysiology Clinical Research & Innovations and Fellow...
The Ali Massumi Cardiac Arrhythmia Symposium is designed to provide cardiac electrophysiologists, cardiologists, internists, fellows, cath lab technicians, family and general practitioners...
Recognized as an accredited provider for over 35 years and awarded Accreditation with Commendation by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical...
Dr. Mehdi Razavi, Director of Clinical Electrophysiology Research & Innovations is mentoring Rice University bioengineering students hoping to make defibrillators more...
Dr. Mehdi Razavi and his team in the Electrophysiology Clinical Research & Innovations lab are developing small chips that could...
Timing of an ICD implant depends mainly on severity of the heart problem and presence of arrhythmia. If you have...
Is it a complicated procedure to move the ICD to the RIGHT side? I’m to have radiation on the left.
Typically this will require tunneling your current leads under the skin and soft tissues across the chest and to the...
Essentially it is correct that Medicare requires 3 months to pass after initial diagnosis if heart failure before ICD implant....
Yes, the shock therapy of the defibrillator can be turned off. The device can still function as a pacemaker. Your...
It does not.
Pacemakers
Electrical impulses from the heart muscle cause your heart to beat (contract). This electrical signal begins in the sinoatrial (SA)...