Background According to guidelines, implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) candidates
must have a “reasonable expectation of survival with a good functional status> 1 year” …

Abstract Background & Objective Despite the burden of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)
worldwide, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are underutilized, particularly in …

Background—Underuse of implantable defibrillators has been previously noted in patients
at risk for sudden cardiac death, as well as for survivors of sudden cardiac death. We sought …

Background In Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial–Reduce Inappropriate
Therapy (MADIT-RIT), high-rate cutoff (arm B) and delayed therapy (arm C) reduced the risk …

Several trials demonstrated that a long detection interval and a high-rate cutoff reduced
implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy in primary prevention patients. However …

Aims To evaluate the outcome of a population implanted with an implantable cardioverter
defibrillator (ICD) for primary prevention in terms of mortality, morbidity and appropriate and …

9 Ruwald MH, Solomon SD, Foster E, et al. Left ventricular ejection fraction normalization in
cardiac resynchronization therapy and risk of ventricular arrhythmias and clinical outcomes …

Background Inappropriate ICD therapy is associated with adverse outcome. Previous
studies indicated that patients with a cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) …

Multiple randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that programming implantable
cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) with longer detection intervals and higher detection rates …

Background—Although implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce mortality in
primary prevention patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction, recent studies have …