Inappropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks—incidence, effect, and implications for driver licensing

PURPOSE: Patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have an ongoing risk of sudden incapacitation that may cause traffic accidents. However, there are limited data on the magnitude of this risk after inappropriate ICD therapies. We studied the rate of syncope associated with inappr...

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Autores principales: Watanabe, Eiichi, Okajima, Katsunori, Shimane, Akira, Ozawa, Tomoya, Manaka, Tetsuyuki, Morishima, Itsuro, Asai, Toru, Takagi, Masahiko, Honda, Toshihiro, Kasai, Atsunobu, Fujii, Eitaro, Yamashiro, Kohei, Kohno, Ritsuko, Abe, Haruhiko, Noda, Takashi, Kurita, Takashi, Watanabe, Shigeyuki, Ohmori, Hiroya, Nitta, Takashi, Aizawa, Yoshifusa, Kiyono, Ken, Okumura, Ken
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
Materias:
Multimedia Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5543197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28730420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10840-017-0272-4

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