Medtronic InSync ICD Panel Review Anticipated, SCD-HeFT Payoff Awaited
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medtronic expects its InSync ICD combination resynchronization/ICD premarket approval application to go before FDA's Circulatory System Devices Panel in March 2002
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