Improved survival with an implanted defibrillator in patients with coronary disease at high risk for ventricular arrhythmia. Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial Investigators.

J Moss, A; J Hall, W; S Cannom, D; P Daubert, J; L Higgins, S; Klein, H; H Levine, J; Saksena, S; L Waldo, A; Wilber, D; W Brown, M; Heo, M

doi:10.1056/nejm199612263352601

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Improved survival with an implanted defibrillator in patients with coronary disease at high risk for ventricular arrhythmia. Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial Investigators.

Published in The New England journal of medicine • Dec 26, 1996

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A J Moss

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W J Hall

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D S Cannom

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Unsustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with previous myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction is associated with a two-year mortality rate of about 30 percent. We studied whether prophylactic therapy with an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, as compared with co...

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