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Prognostic Importance of Defibrillator Shocks in Patients with Heart Failure

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2008

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Jeanne E. Poole, George Johnson, Anne S. Hellkamp, Jill Anderson, David J. Callans, Merritt H. Raitt, Ramakota Reddy, Francis E. Marchlinski, Raymond Yee, Thomas Guarnieri,
New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract

Among patients with heart failure in whom an ICD is implanted for primary prevention, those who receive shocks for any arrhythmia have a substantially higher risk of death than similar patients who do not receive such shocks.

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