Death Without Prior Appropriate Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy | Zendy

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Death Without Prior Appropriate Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy

Author(s) -

Michael Koller,

Beat Schaer,

Marcel Wolbers,

Christian Sticherling,

Heiner C. Bucher,

Stefan Osswald

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.107.742155

Subject(s) - medicine , cumulative incidence , ventricular fibrillation , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , population , sudden cardiac death , incidence (geometry) , heart failure , clinical endpoint , cardiology , sudden death , randomized controlled trial , cohort , physics , environmental health , optics

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) improve survival in selected patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction in randomized trials. Competing death without prior appropriate ICD therapy might preclude benefit from ICD implantation in a less selected routine-care population.

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