A 65-year-old man treated for ventricular tachycardia storm after repeat bypass surgery, requiring extensive defibrillator shocks for recovery.

Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.

SIMS Hospital saved the life of a 65-year-old religious scholar who developed a life-threatening ventricular tachycardia (VT) storm following a complex redo coronary artery bypass grafting. The ...

William S. Staewen, a co-inventor of the implantable heart defibrillator and a pioneer in biomedical engineering, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 19 at Frederick Health Hospital. He was 91 and ...

Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...

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PRINCETON — A heart procedure that required patients needing it to travel many miles from home can now find it at a local hospital serving southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia. WVU Medicine ...

There are unique technical issues that must be considered with the implantation of devices in small patients and those with CHD. Although most centers report low complication rates of complications in ...