A wearable automatic defibrillator may be an option for patients who are at risk for life-threatening heart rhythm abnormalities but are not good candidates for an implantable cardiac defibrillator ...

A more than a decade-long medical trial has opened the way for potentially life-saving treatment options for patients with ...

Background: Although more than 150,000 implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted yearly worldwide, only few studies systematically examined complications of ICD therapy in large ...

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, ...

A more than decade-long randomized trial suggests that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators may benefit some patients who have heart scarring and only mild-to-moderate loss of heart function, a ...

An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator did not improve the primary endpoint overall in the CMR GUIDE trial but younger ...

An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a heart monitoring device. When necessary, it provides an electric shock that corrects an abnormal heart rhythm and prevents sudden cardiac death.

A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the device is inserted, ...

The indications for ICD implantation continue to expand; however, these devices are associated with complications related to the implantation procedure itself and morbidity caused by the normal and ...

Cameron Mair has become the first patient to receive a new heart treatment at University Hospital Coventry.

A wearable automatic defibrillator may be an alternative to an implantable cardiac defibrillator for a small group of patients, say researchers. There are few large, randomized and controlled clinical ...