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The surgical aspects of automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation
1Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
|May 11, 1991
Abstract:
Since February 1980, the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) has been implanted in over 12,000 patients. This report examines the surgical aspects of AICD implantation. The various surgical techniques, their indications, and our recent clinical experience in over 250 patients are reviewed.