Guidant Warns On New Group of Heart Devices

Less than one month after it warned that some of its devices could suffer "component failure", Guidant Corporation announced on July 18 that a new group of devices had been identified that could also fail.

The devices were manufactured between November 25, 1997 and October 26, 2000. The company said that it had identified 69 devices that failed of 78,000 tested. The brand names of the devices are:

PULSAR®
MAXPULSARDISCOVERY®
MERIDIAN®
PULSAR MAX II
DISCOVERY II
VIRTUS PLUS®
IIINTELIS II
CONTAK® TR

Additional information about this potential issue is available for physicians and patients at 1-866-GUIDANT.

posted by Consumer Help Web Editorial Team at 5:02 PM |