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Improved survival of patients with coronary artery disease and low ejection fraction with ICD implantation versus conventional therapy in a real world survey

BACKGROUND: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is associated with an increased risk for sudden cardiac death. Randomized controlled trials have shown that implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) improve life expectancy unless they are implanted within the first days after an acute myocardial infarc...

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Autores principales: Aschenbrenner, Timo, Brockmeier, Johannes, Bramlage, Peter, Fimmers, Rolf, Cuneo, Alessandro, Hochreuther, Stefan, Zemmrich, Claudia, Tebbe, Ulrich
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3457837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22840219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-382