BIOTRONIK has announced that the European Heart Journal has published the clinical results of the ECOST trial (Effectiveness and Cost Of ICD Follow-Up Schedule with Telecardiology). The randomized ...

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BIOTRONIK has announced the publication of the IN-TIME study results in the medical journal The Lancet. The randomized, controlled trial is the first worldwide to demonstrate that automatic, ...

Recently I was on the bus when my implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) kicked in and saved my life. But afterwards I was told the battery had less than a month of power left. I’ve since heard ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cardiologists group called for closer monitoring of the performance of wire leads that connect implanted defibrillators and pacemakers to the heart in the wake of malfunctions ...

Combined data from five implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) trials suggest that it is the underlying arrhythmic disorder, rather than the ICD therapy itself, that affects mortality in these ...