Long-Term Outcome After ICD and CRT Implantation and Influence of Remote Device Follow-Up
Author(s) -
Leslie A. Saxon,
David L. Hayes,
F. Roosevelt Gilliam,
Paul A. Heidenreich,
John Day,
Milan Seth,
Timothy E. Meyer,
Paul W. Jones,
John Boehmer
Publication year - 2010
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.110.960633
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac resynchronization therapy , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , shock (circulatory) , clinical trial , cardiology , surgery , heart failure , ejection fraction
Outcome data for patients receiving implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) devices treated outside of clinical trials are lacking. No clinical trial has evaluated mortality after device implantation or after shock therapy in large numbers of patients with implanted devices that regularly transmit device data over a network.
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