March 3rd, 2011
Pennsylvania Hospital: 141 Patients Received Unnecessary Stents
Larry Husten, PHD
A hospital in western Pennsylvania says that at least 141 heart patients received coronary stents that weren’t needed, according to an article by Luis Fabregas in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, PA has informed the patients, and the two interventional cardiologists who performed the procedures have resigned. The hospital says that it will cooperate with […]
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