Prophylactic Use of an Implantable Cardioverter–Defibrillator after Acute Myocardial Infarction

Abstract

Prophylactic ICD therapy does not reduce overall mortality in high-risk patients who have recently had a myocardial infarction. Although ICD therapy was associated with a reduction in the rate of death due to arrhythmia, that was offset by an increase in the rate of death from nonarrhythmic causes.