The goal of the trial was to evaluate the effect of lipid-lowering therapy with atorvastatin compared with placebo among patients with coronary artery disease and internal cardioverter defibrillator ...

For congestive heart failure patient Chet Consolazione even a short walk around his Petaluma garden would have been a challenge a year ago. "I'd sit down on the floor and rest. Then I'd go back to bed ...

LANSING — A new type of heart defibrillator was implanted for the first time in Michigan during a December procedure at E.W. Sparrow Hospital. The device is able to give a more normal life to people ...

Implanting a defibrillator just weeks after a heart attack does not improve a patient's chances of survival, according to an international study. The researchers suggested instead that patients wait ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Another first for Lansing institutions: Sparrow has become the first health system (and hospital) in Michigan to have implanted a new, life-saving defibrillator for heart ...

This question is difficult to answer. A patient treated with antiarrhythmic drugs or an internal defibrillator may have an episode of ventricular tachyarrhythmia despite treatment -- which could lead ...

WICHITA, Kan. -- A little more than a week after he collapsed at practice and was rushed to a local hospital, Wichita State freshman D.J. Bowles underwent surgery to have an internal defibrillator ...