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ICD therapy in the elderly: a retrospective single-center analysis of mortality

BACKGROUND: Current implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) guidelines do not impose age limitations for ICD implantation (IMPL) and generator exchange (GE); however, patients (pts) should be expected to survive for 1 year. With higher age, comorbidity and mortality due to non-sudden cardiac de...

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Autores principales: Scheurlen, Cornelia, van den Bruck, Jan, Wörmann, Jonas, Plenge, Tobias, Sultan, Arian, Steven, Daniel, Lüker, Jakob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Medizin 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8166735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33512593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00399-021-00742-x