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Are more complex implantable cardioverter defibrillators associated with an increased mortality? Lessons learned from
K A Ellenbogen1, A E Epstein, M A Wood
1Department of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia and the McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond 23298-0053, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|November 5, 1997
Abstract:
We compared 1-year survival in patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) that provide only shock therapy with more advanced ICDs that provide antitachycardia pacing, bradycardia pacing, low-energy cardioversion, and advanced detection algorithms. Outcome in patients with advanced-generation ICD systems was similar or improved compared with outcome in patients receiving ICDs with only monophasic shock.