Defibrillator Implantation in Patients with Nonischemic Systolic Heart Failure

Køber, Lars; Jakob Thune, Jens; Cosedis Nielsen, Jens; Haarbo, Jens; Videbæk, Lars; Korup, Eva; V.H. Jensen, Gunnar; Hildebrandt, Per; Hald Steffensen, Flemming; Eske Bruun, Niels; Eiskjær, Hans; Brandes, Axel; Margrethe Thøgersen, Anna; Gustafsson, Finn; Egstrup, Kenneth; Videbæk, R.; Hassager, Christian; Hastrup Svendsen, Jesper; Eik Høfsten, Dan; Torp‐Pedersen, Christian; Pehrson, Steen

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1608029

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Defibrillator Implantation in Patients with Nonischemic Systolic Heart Failure

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Aug 28, 2016

Authors:

Lars Køber

Jens Jakob Thune

Jens Cosedis Nielsen

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The benefit of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in patients with symptomatic systolic heart failure caused by coronary artery disease has been well documented. However, the evidence for a benefit of prophylactic ICDs in patients with systolic heart failure that is not due ...

Subject

Cardiology

Internal medicine

Heart failure

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