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Cardiac resynchronization therapy displays long-term benefits vs. ICD in HFrEF

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Long-term CRT-D use was tied to improved survival and time to adverse events vs. ICD therapy in patients with ...
MedPage Today

Ventricular Arrhythmias: Which Patients Benefit Most From an ICD?

"Appropriately selected patients with NICM have the potential to benefit from primary prevention ICD therapy…Besides consideration of ICD placement, attention to guideline-directed medical therapy and ...
Medscape

Underlying Heart Rhythm, Not ICD Shocks, Drives Mortality

Combined data from five implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) trials suggest that it is the underlying arrhythmic disorder, rather than the ICD therapy itself, that affects mortality in these ...
Medscape

High Incidence of Appropriate and Inappropriate ICD Therapies in Children and Adolescents with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

Appropriate and inappropriate therapies of implantable cardioverter defibrillators have a major impact on morbidity and quality of life in ICD recipients, but have not been systematically studied in ...
TCTMD

Preventive VT Ablation Before ICD Helps High-risk Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients

BERLIN, Germany—Performing ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation before placement of a primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) had a clinical benefit in a selected group of ...

Pulsed field ablation system shows promise for reducing ventricular tachycardia recurrence

Six-month outcomes from the Ventricular Catheter Ablation Study, the first-in-human evaluation of its FieldForce Ablation ...
TCTMD

Gains in HF Drug Therapy Raise Questions About ICD Benefit in Modern Era

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) seems to lessen the risk of dying among patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) even on ...
News Medical

PROFID EHRA trial to assess the potential benefit of ICD therapy in myocardial infarction survivors

Is the routine implantation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in myocardial infarction survivors with heart failure still an adequate therapy for prevention of sudden cardiac death?
News Medical

ICD treatment does not lower death risk in patients with abnormal ECG after myocardial infarction

Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...
Nature

Should all patients with heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction receive combined CRT–ICD therapy?

Patients with heart failure (HF) and left ventricular (LV) dysfunction have been shown to derive clinical benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and from implantable ...
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Implantable cardioverter defibrillators did not improve mortality in selected heart-attack patients

Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...