Largest study to date finds benefits of ICDs in children
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 09:42
in Health & Medicine
More and more children with congenital heart disease are receiving implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) to maintain proper heart rhythm. ICDs were first introduced for adults in the 1980s, but little is known about how well they work in children, who account for less than 1 percent of recipients.