Do elderly patients benefit from implantable defibrillators?
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Do elderly patients benefit from implantable-cardioverter defibrillators?
Sudden cardiac death resulting from lethal ventricular arrhyth-mias forms a major cause of mortality. The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) has been shown to reduce mortality in patients who survived cardiac arrest, who experienced a previous myocardial infarction and have a diminished left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), or who have a dilated cardiomyopathy and an LVEF. This h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Aging Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1745-509X,1745-5103
DOI: 10.2217/ahe.13.56