Heart Implants, 3-D-Printed to Order

Tailor-made medical devices could give a more detailed picture of cardiac health and may be better at predicting and preventing problems.

Its a poetic fact of biology that everyones heart is a slightly different size and shape. And yet todays cardiac implantsmedical devices like pacemakers and defibrillatorsare basically one size fits all. Among other things, this means these devices, though lifesaving for many patients, are limited in the information they can gather.