Defibrillator implantation early after myocardial infarction.
By G. Steinbeck, D. Andresen, K. Seidl, J. Brachmann, E. Hoffmann, D. Wojciechowski, Z. Kornacewicz‐Jach, B. Sredniawa, G. Lupkovics, F. Hofgärtner and 5 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2009
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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
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- 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the preventionof sudden cardiac death (2015, neutral): “Nonetheless, early defibrillator implantation after an infarction does not improve prognosis, probably due to competing causes of death.(274,275) Optimal revascularization and medical therapy (including betablockers, dual antiplatelet therapy and statins) and prevention and treatment of HF are recom”
- ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012 (2012, background): “Two other RCTs showed no benefit in patients treated with an ICD early (≤40 days) after myocardial infarction.(150,151) This is why ICD use in patients with coronary heart disease receives level of evidence A, but only in patients .”
- 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure (2016, neutral): “Two RCTs showed no benefit in patients who had an ICD implanted within 40 days after a myocardial infarction.(158,228) Although sudden arrhythmic deaths were reduced, this was balanced by an increase in non-arrhythmic deaths.”