Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

J. Maron, Barry; Spirito, Paolo; Shen, Win-Kuang; S. Haas, Tammy; Formisano, Francesco; S. Link, Mark; E. Epstein, Andrew; K. Almquist, Adrian; P. Daubert, James; Lawrenz, Thorsten; Boriani, Giuseppe; Mark Estes, N.A.; Favale, Stefano; Piccininno, Marco; L. Winters, Stephen; Santini, Massimo; Betocchi, Sandro; Arribas, Fernando; V. Sherrid, Mark; Buja, Gianfranco; Semsarian, Christopher; Bruzzi, Paolo

doi:10.1001/jama.298.4.405

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Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Published in JAMA • Jul 24, 2007

Authors:

Barry J. Maron

Paolo Spirito

Win-Kuang Shen

Abstract

CONTEXT: Recently, the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has been promoted for prevention of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). However, the effectiveness and appropriate selection of patients for this therapy is incompletely resolved. OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship ...

Subject

Medicine

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Ventricular fibrillation

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