Prophylactic Defibrillator Implantation in Patients with Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

H. Kadish, Alan; R. Dyer, Alan; P. Daubert, James; Quigg, Rebecca; Mark Estes, N.A.; P. Anderson, Kelley; Calkins, Hugh; Hoch, David; J. Goldberger, Jeffrey; Shalaby, Alaa; E. Sanders, William; Schaechter, Andi; Levine, Joseph

doi:10.1056/nejmoa033088

Public

Prophylactic Defibrillator Implantation in Patients with Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • May 19, 2004

Authors:

Alan H. Kadish

Alan R. Dyer

James P. Daubert

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy are at substantial risk for sudden death from cardiac causes. However, the value of prophylactic implantation of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to prevent sudden death in such patients is unknown. METHODS: We enrolled 458 ...

Subject

Medicine

Ejection fraction

Hazard ratio

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!