Association Between Use of Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Mortality in Patients with Heart Failure: A Prospective Propensity-Score Matched Analysis from the Swedish Heart Failure Registry.
CONCLUSIONS: In a contemporary HFrEF population, ICD for primary prevention was underused although it was associated with reduced short- and long-term all-cause mortality. This association was consistent across all the investigated subgroups. These results call for better implementation of ICD therapy.
PMID: 31476893 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Circulation - Category: Cardiology Authors: Schrage B, Uijl A, Benson L, Westermann D, Ståhlberg M, Stolfo D, Dahlström U, Linde CM, Braunschweig F, Savarese G Tags: Circulation Source Type: research
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