A 17-month-old boy in Coimbatore was among the youngest patients in India to undergo an implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) procedure via an open chest surgery. Coimbatore: A 17-month-old ...

The risk associated with implantation of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is often focused on the immediate complications of the procedure. The long-term risk of having an ICD, ...

Heart failure is a deadly disease. Every year, tens of thousands of patients die from this condition, many of them suddenly. Efforts aimed at reducing mortality centered initially on antagonizing the ...

Curtis et al. reveal that, compared with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation performed by electrophysiologists, procedures carried out by nonelectrophysiologists are prone to ...

Boston Scientific Shockless Implant Evaluation (SIMPLE) Study Results Presented at Heart Rhythm 2014, the Heart Rhythm Society's 35th Annual Scientific Sessions The trial results demonstrated that ...

KNOXVILLE -- Tennessee senior associate athletic trainer Chad Newman has reported that basketball player Emmanuel Negedu had a sub-pectoral implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) implanted in his ...

Medical doctor Ghiyath Tabbal anticipates doing 100 heart procedures a year using a new version of an implantable defibrillator. Medical doctor Ghiyath Tabbal anticipates doing 100 heart procedures a ...

have sustained VT without syncope or cardiac arrest, and also have an associated reduction in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 35% or less but their symptoms are no worse than class 3 of ...

The risks of DFT testing include those related to VF and those related to shocks alone. The former may be due to circulatory arrest alone or the combination of circulatory arrest and shocks, since VF ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a medical journalist covering cardiology news. Since the first human implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implant in ...