More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter defibrillators are implanted per year in the United States — 25% of which are generator replacements resulting from depleted battery life. Yet, not all of ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — By the time patients with a first primary-prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) are due for a new device, about one-fourth no longer fulfill indications for such ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mortality and appropriate shocks for ventricular tachyarrhythmias were less common among patients who exhibited ...

Operation to replace the heart-regulating device is routine but not risk-free. June 8, 2007— -- Later this year, Vice President Dick Cheney will have his internal heart-regulating device ...

Patients who stayed active following ICD implantation had better survival rates that those who did not, a study concludes. They add that Information collected by ICD devices may one day help ...