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 ...

Thousands of Americans with heart trouble have small implanted defibrillators, to help regulate their heartbeat and keep cardiac events at bay. But new research finds that on extremely hot days ...

The operation to implant the removable subcutaneous defibrillator was performed this morning and by the weekend Edoardo Bove will finally be able to leave the Careggi hospital where he has been ...

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator presence linked to higher odds of every indicator of aggressive end-of-life care, other than chemotherapy ...

All patients gave written informed consent according to a protocol approved by the institutional review boards of the institutions at which the devices were implanted. The device, a Medtronic 7250 ...

Clinical Electrophysiology journal showed that when acute procedural success is attained in a subset of patients with ...

Divya Sharma, who filed a petition, told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the implanted device's battery is running out ...

He was treated in the intensive care unit of the Careggi hospital in Florence and has been fitted with an implanted defibrillator. Bove returned to see his team-mates at Fiorentina’s training ...

(Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/Getty Images) This is something he should not have been able to do considering he was fitted with an implanted defibrillator, meaning under the Italian rules he cannot ...

A team at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare's Children’s Hospital of Illinois became the first in the world to implant an extravascular implantable, cardioverter-defibrillator in a pediatric patient ...

He was already breathing by the time he was loaded into the ambulance and rushed to the local hospital, where he underwent tests and received an implanted defibrillator. FLORENCE, ITALY ...