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The Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator: Results, Observations, and Comments
Author(s) -
LUCERI RICHARD M.,
THURER RICHARD J.,
PALATIANOS GEORGE M.,
FERNANDEZ PEDRO R.,
ELSHALAKANY ASHRAF,
CASTELLANOS AGUSTIN
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1986.tb06721.x
Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , cardiology
The automatic implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator (AICD) is a device of proven efficacy in life‐threatening ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation. Initial experience with the AICD at the University of Miami consists of 21 patients with recurrent ventricular dysrhythmias for a total follow‐up of 3–35 months (mean 19). There were two deaths in the series, one nonarrhythmic and one arrhythmic, at the fifth and tenth postoperative months respectively. There were five complications requiring reoperation in three patients. Pacemakers were required in four patients with the AICD and resulted in interesting observations. Our data concur with previously published reports of improved survival in selected patients.