Improved survival with an implanted defibrillator in patients with coronary disease at high risk for ventricular arrhythmia. Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial Investigators.

J Moss, A; J Hall, W; S Cannom, D; P Daubert, J; L Higgins, S; Klein, H; H Levine, J; Saksena, S; L Waldo, A; Wilber, D; W Brown, M; Heo, M

doi:10.1056/NEJM199612263352601

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Improved survival with an implanted defibrillator in patients with coronary disease at high risk for ventricular arrhythmia. Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial Investigators.

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Authors:

A J Moss

W J Hall

D S Cannom

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Unsustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with previous myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction is associated with a two-year mortality rate of about 30 percent. We studied whether prophylactic therapy with an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, as compared with co...

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