FDA’s new x-ray mandate for Riata patients doesn’t ignores complexities of reality
If you have not already heard, there was more news (see theHeart.org) on the troubled St. Jude Medical Riata family of ICD leads. The high voltage leads were recalled in December of 2011 and estimates are that 79,000 remain implanted. Perhaps more problematic for the company is the structural similarity of its current ICD lead […]