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Octo- and nonagenarians’ outlook on life and death when living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Elderly individuals are increasingly represented among patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), but data describing life with an ICD are scarse among octo- and nonagenarians. Moreover, few studies have reported those elderly patients’ perspective on timly discussions...

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Autores principales: Thylén, Ingela, Moser, Debra K., Strömberg, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30342484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0942-9