Sentence examples for malfunctioning heart from inspiring English sources

Your article about malfunctioning heart defibrillators ("Troubling Flaws in Heart Device Shake Industry," front page, April 7) is just the latest example of how medical implants can become ticking time bombs because of weak federal oversight.

For example, he said, a woman with a malfunctioning heart valve came to him for a second opinion.

He marvels at himself as he cuts open some poor man's chest and begins to operate on his malfunctioning heart.

E1 BUSINESS DAY C1-18 Devicesing Defects' Defects A college student's death in March from sudden cardiac arrest because of a malfunctioning heart defibrillator set off a series of events that has exposed flaws in how producers of critical heart devices disclose defects to doctors and patients.

For the daughter of a 17th century farmer, a mutation causing a weakened immune system or a malfunctioning heart might have been an early death sentence or at least prevented her from having her own children.

A doctor told Zedd he had a malfunctioning heart valve.

Furthermore, autoinjectors contain five times the amount of atropine normally administered intravenously to treat malfunctioning hearts.

A computerized drug-dispensing cabinet, the Pyxis system, also indicated that in the hours before Ms. Han's heart malfunctioned, Mr. Cullen had ordered a dose of digoxin for another patient, who was not prescribed the drug.

A total of 130 participants (14.1 %) did not participate, mainly due to pain (knee, lower back and hip), body mass above the maximal user weight for the cycle ergometer (125 kg), perceived inability to perform a test, on-going illnesses or due to malfunction of heart rate monitors or the cycle ergometer.

The stents that had been put into her husband's heart were now somehow malfunctioning.

On physical examination, I heard a loud heart murmur, indicating that his cardiac valves were malfunctioning.