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A Hearty Life

April 26th, 2006

Removing Implanted Heart Device Poses Risks

Implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may be less likely to fail now than before, but still malfunction 20 times more often than pacemakers and need to be replaced an average of 26.5 months after initial implant. Replacing problematic ICD’s is no easy matter, a survey of Canadian ICD implanting centers found:
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5.8% of patients who had ICDs […]

By Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD -- 1 comment