… No significant predictors of ICD therapy could be identified in older patients. Median …
irrespective of delivery of ICD therapy. In conclusion, ICD therapy is effective for treatment of life-…

… of the benefit associated with the implantable-defibrillator therapy remains … -drug therapy,
is strongly supported by this study. The defibrillator was superior to antiarrhythmic-drug therapy …

… from device implantation was then estimated by comparison of the … the benefit of ICD therapy
depends on the severity of the underlying heart failure. Even in NYHA class III, benefit was …

… Final programming of electrical therapy was based on cardioversion and defibrillation
testing at implant and postoperative electrophysiological study. If the system performance was …

… of the implanted defibrillator to save lives … defibrillation with an implantable device in 3
patients. The era of the clinical use of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy …

… mortality, but there is no definitive comparison between CRT-D and CRT-P 4 . Then, plenty
of observational studies reported the various outcome of CRT-D comparing to CRT-P, and a …

… with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy alone. The relative benefits and
harms of … Because of the large number of comparisons, we used a 2-tailed α level of 0.01 and …

… by randomizing study subjects to biventricular devices with defibrillation capability and
comparing this device to CRT or optimal medical therapy (OPT). Sudden death accounted for 26.5…

… We hypothesized that therapy with ICDs would in the worst … 23 Accordingly, the α-level for
comparison of survival … stated concerning multiple group comparisons and multiple looks into …

… Despite these achievements, disadvantages, ie inappropriate therapy or non-benefit [5–8], of
… cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in clinical practice: Which patients do benefit? Neth Heart J…