Incidence and Clinical Significance of Multiple Consecutive, Appropriate, High-Energy Discharges in Patients With Implanted Cardioverter-Defibrillators

Abstract

In patients with an ICD, the development of MCD is an independent predictor of cardiac and arrhythmic mortality. If this finding is confirmed in larger studies, it may help to identify patients in whom other therapeutic alternatives, ie, heart transplantation, should be considered during follow-up after ICD implantation.