Are Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Shocks a Surrogate for Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients With Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy?

2006292 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Kenneth A. Ellenbogen · VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Joseph Levine · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

Ronald D. Berger · Johns Hopkins Hospital

James P. Daubert · VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Stephen L. Winters · University of Rochester

Eugene Greenstein · University of Rochester

Alaa Shalaby

Abstract

Appropriate ICD shocks occur more frequently than SCD in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy. This suggests that episodes of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia frequently terminate spontaneously in such patients.

Topics & Keywords

Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Circulation

Volume 113, Issue 6, pp. 776-782

DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.105.561571

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