Betty Winkler, with daughter Wendy, used her Watchman implant as motivation to regain her strength and energy. “If it’s going to make me better, I’m going to do it,” she says. (Cottage Health photo) ...

The Cottage Heart & Vascular Center’s structural heart team at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SBCH) recently performed their 1,000th WATCHMAN device procedure, a minimally invasive solution for ...

ZANESVILLE – Genesis HealthCare System’s Heart and Vascular team recently performed the 300th WATCHMAN Implant procedure. The WATCHMAN Implant is completed through a minimally invasive procedure and ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - Singing River Health System celebrated its 400th WATCHMAN Implant procedure at Ocean Springs Hospital on Tuesday. The WATCHMAN Implant is a device that is inserted into ...

The Cardiovascular Institute of the South is the first to perform the watchman device implant. It reduces stroke risk for a lifetime and eliminates the need for blood thinners. “We are able to put a ...

Your heart may flip flop, miss a beat, and you may get lightheaded and weak. If that's the case, you may be suffering from a common but sometimes deadly problem called atrial fibrillation. Right now ...

Boston Scientific has obtained an FDA green light for the latest version of its Watchman heart implant, designed to help lower the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. Compared to its ...

A head-to-head, randomized study of the two leading heart implants worldwide for reducing the risk of stroke among people with an irregular pulse found there was little difference between their safety ...

According to an article published by Mass Device , Boston Scientific’s BSX Watchman heart implant long-term follow-up study recently demonstrated favorable outcomes. The study demonstrated low risk of ...

Fe Almo enjoys "taking it easy" by going to dinners, gardening and venturing on occasional cruise vacations. But for two years, a life-threatening heart condition prevented the retiree from an active ...