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Twelve years in development at a cost of $4 million, AID (for Automatic Implantable Defibrillator) is largely a triumph for Cardiologist Michel Mirowski, 55, who migrated from Israel with the aim of perfecting it against almost unanimous medical opposition. Experts doubted that such miniaturized equipment could work inside the body. The implant's electronic heart and soul is its microcircuitry. Designed by Dr. M.S. Heilman and Engineer Alois Langer at Medrad/Intec Systems, a small medical technology firm in Pittsburgh, the little package (total weight: 250 grams, or 9 oz.) is placed just under the skin of the abdomen...
...Mirowski and his colleagues have implanted the device in six people, all of whom had already been stricken at least twice by episodes of cardiac arrest. Since their surgery, the patients have experienced a total of eleven cardiac incidents; during all but two of them, the machine restored normal heartbeat. One patient died even though the defibrillator worked faultlessly. The doctors shut down the device in a 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy because his heartbeat was so rapid that it triggered frequent shocks. The device is now being reprogrammed to accept the boy's quick pulse. The longest user...
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