Implanted defibrillator maker stands by device despite electrical problem

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

INDIANAPOLIS -- The maker of an internal heart defibrillator is acknowledging it waited three years before telling some 24,000 patients and their doctors about an electrical problem that caused a small fraction of the implanted devices to short-circuit.

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