Editor's note: In an earlier version of this story we reported that the St Jude Medical Riata lead had been previously recalled; no such recall has occurred. This has been corrected. But in this ...

Another important aspect of risk stratification is consideration of heart-failure (HF) burden. A recent study of 66 000 Medicare patients with ICDs [23] showed that repeated HF hospitalizations or a ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) generator replacement in Canadian patients with devices that were recalled was associated with an 8 percent rate of complications, according to a study in ...

Looking at a large cohort of patients undergoing various types of open heart surgery, investigators have provided contemporary data that can be used to inform patients about the risks of cardiac ...

New data from a Canadian registry suggest that angina, antiarrhythmic therapy and low implanter volume are among the risk factors associated with complications after implantable cardioverter ...

You may have heard of two little devices that doctors use to help treat heart problems: pacemakers and ICDs (implantable cardioverter defibrillators). They use them when you have a type of heart ...