Mortality benefits from implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy are not restricted to patients with remote myocardial infarction: An analysis from the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT)

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 393-400

  Piccini, Jonathan P ^a,b   Al Khatib, Sana M ^a,b   Hellkamp, Anne S ^b   Anstrom, Kevin J ^b   Poole, Jeanne E ^c   Mark, Daniel B ^a,b   Lee, Kerry L ^b   Bardy, Gust H ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; ischemic cardiomyopathy; myocardial infarction; sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952180763     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.11.033     Document Type: Article

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