Comparison of ventricular arrhythmia burden, therapeutic interventions, and survival, in patients < 75 and patients >or= 75 years of age treated with implantable cardioverter defibrillators

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) reduce arrhythmic mortality in a wide range of patients with poor left ventricular (LV) function. However, whether ICD therapy is equally effective in younger and older patients remains uncertain. To address this question, we compared ICD-documented vent...

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Veröffentlicht in:Europace (London, England) England), 2007-05, Vol.9 (5), p.270-274
Hauptverfasser: Ermis, Cengiz, Zhu, Alan X, Vanheel, Laura, Sakaguchi, R N Scott, Lurie, Keith G, Lu, Fei, Benditt, David G
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