Survival benefit of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in left ventricular assist device-supported heart failure patients

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 140-145

  Refaat, Marwan M ^a   Tanaka, Toshikazu ^b   Kormos, Robert L ^b,c   McNamara, Dennis ^b   Teuteberg, Jeffrey ^b   Winowich, Steve ^c   London, Barry ^b   Simon, Marc A ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; Implantable cardioverter defibrillators; transplantation; ventricular arrhythmias; ventricular assist devices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SHOCK; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION;

COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856466614     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2011.10.020     Document Type: Article

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