St. Jude Riata Lead Patients Face Rising Medical Bills
Patients who have been implanted with St. Jude Medical's now-recalled Riata defibrillator leads will likely face some hefty medical bills. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, doctors are increasingly removing St. Jude Riata leads, a procedure that is not only risky, but expensive. As we’ve reported previously, St. … [Read more...] about St. Jude Riata Lead Patients Face Rising Medical Bills
Heart Device Patients with St. Jude Riata Leads Need X-Rays to Check Insulation, FDA Warns
Federal health regulators are warning that patients with implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices that are connected to their hearts via St. Jude Medical's Riata or Riata ST lead wires need to undergo x-rays or other imaging tests. According to the U.S. Food & Drug … [Read more...] about Heart Device Patients with St. Jude Riata Leads Need X-Rays to Check Insulation, FDA Warns
Riata Heart Lead Study Confirms Failure Risk
A new study that confirms the high rate of an erosion problem that led to the recall of St. Jude’s Riata heart defibrillator leads has found that such failures are most likely to occur with wires that have large diameters. Results of the study indicated that inside-out erosion occurred in 9.3 percent of the smaller diameter Riata ST … [Read more...] about Riata Heart Lead Study Confirms Failure Risk
Riata Defibrillator Lead Patients Left with Few Good Choices
People relying on the Riata and Riata ST models of cardiac defibrillator leads face a dangerous and life-threatening dilemma: should they choose to have the fault-prone and recalled medical devices removed in place of a different, safer model; or do they trust that its defects won’t harm them as they have for hundreds of others, … [Read more...] about Riata Defibrillator Lead Patients Left with Few Good Choices
St. Jude Softens Stance on Riata Defibrillator Lead Study Author
It appears that St. Jude Medical Inc. has softened its criticism, somewhat, of Dr. Robert Hauser, the prominent cardiologist and researcher who recently linked the company's recalled Riata defibrillator leads to 22 deaths. According to MedCity News, St. Jude's CEO, Daniel Starks, was more conciliatory towards the researcher a … [Read more...] about St. Jude Softens Stance on Riata Defibrillator Lead Study Author
Heart Rhythm Journal Rejects St. Jude Request to Retract Riata Lead Study
The journal Heart Rhythm will not retract a study published last month that linked St. Jude Medical's Riata and Riata ST defibrillator leads to 22 deaths that were the result of high-voltage failures of the leads. St. Jude, which had sought retraction of the Heart Journal study, has maintained that its findings are biased and … [Read more...] about Heart Rhythm Journal Rejects St. Jude Request to Retract Riata Lead Study
Medtronic Claims Analysis Confirms Recent Findings on St. Jude Riata Defibrillator Lead Death Rates
Medtronic Inc. is backing findings of a study that raised serious safety concerns about Riata and Riata ST defibrillator leads made by rival, St. Jude Medical Inc. The study, conducted by Dr. Robert Hauser and published in the journal Heart Rhythm, found that the Riata leads were associated with higher death and failure rates than … [Read more...] about Medtronic Claims Analysis Confirms Recent Findings on St. Jude Riata Defibrillator Lead Death Rates
St. Jude Claims Study on Alleged Riata Lead Deaths is Biased and Inaccurate
St. Jude Medical wants the Heart Rhythm Journal to retract a study published last month that linked its Riata line of internal defibrillator leads to more 20 deaths. In a statement issued by St. Jude on Friday, the company asserted the Riata lead study was biased and based on inaccurate facts. A defibrillator lead is a thin wire … [Read more...] about St. Jude Claims Study on Alleged Riata Lead Deaths is Biased and Inaccurate
