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Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death : Lessons From Recent Controlled Trials
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Richter Sergio
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Duray Gabor
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Gronefeld Gerian
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Israel Carsten W
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Hohnloser Stefan H
… On top of this optimized pharmacological therapy, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) further decrease the risk of overall and SCD mortality in carefully selected patient groups. … In contrast, patients early after myocardial infarction derive less benefit from ICD treatment, presumably because of a high competing risk of non-arrhythmic cardiovascular death. …
Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society 69(6), 625-629, 2005-05-20
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