The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is remarkably effective in preventing sudden
cardiac death in high-risk patients, but it also has the capacity to provoke or worsen cardiac …

The myocardial stimulation threshold for cardiac pacing is a dynamic condition of the
myocardium that is affected by physiologic variations in sympathetic tone, metabolic factors …

The automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was implanted in 270 patients because
of life-threatening arrhythmias over a 7 year period. There was a history of sustained …

This article describes the implantation of an automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator
in a 69-year-old man with coronary artery disease and recurrent sustained ventricular …

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clinical event. Implantable cardioverter defibriliator (ICD) devices are approved for clinical …

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators. Antiarrhythmic drugs and separate bradycardia
pacing systems are prescribed commonly in patients with implantable cardioverter …

We undertook a prospective randomized clinical trial evaluating efficacy and safety of
internal atrial defibrillation in patients with drug-refractory atrial fibrillation (AF). Consecutive …

Bidirectional shocks using 2 current pathways have been used in endocardial lead systems
for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, but the optimal shock waveform for endocardial …

The efficacy and safety of a new antitachycardia pacing technique, self-adapting
decremental overdrive pacing, was assessed in patients with clinical ventricular …

We performed a prospective, randomized crossover study to evaluate the comparative
efficacy of transvenous cardioversion and rapid ventricular pacing for termination of induced …