Prognostic Importance of Defibrillator Shocks in Patients with Heart Failure
Prognostic Importance of Defibrillator Shocks in Patients with Heart Failure
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Poole, Jeanne E , Johnson, George W , Hellkamp, Anne S , Anderson, Jill , Callans, David J , Raitt, Merritt H , Reddy, Ramakota K , Marchlinski, Francis E , Yee, Raymond , Guarnieri, Thomas , Talajic, Mario , Wilber, David J , Fishbein, Daniel P , Packer, Douglas L , Mark, Daniel B , Lee, Kerry L and Bardy, Gust H
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Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society
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In the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial, 811 patients were randomly assigned to receive implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs). Of these patients, 269 (33.2%) received at least one ICD shock over a median follow-up period of 45.5 months. The occurrence of ICD shocks, whether appropriate or inappropriate, was associated with a sig...
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Prognostic Importance of Defibrillator Shocks in Patients with Heart Failure
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_2922510
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_2922510
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0028-4793
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1533-4406
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10.1056/NEJMoa071098
