Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gasparini, Maurizio, MD

Titel

Avoiding Unnecessary Aggressive ICD Programming After MADIT-RIT and ADVANCE III Trials

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2014-01, Vol.63 (2), p.189-190

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (1) discussed their results in the context of MADIT-RIT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial Reduce Inappropriate Therapy) (2) data assessing whether the 2 results are contradicting and concluded that "combining the results of the 2 studies, one could conclude that unnecessary ATP [antitachycardia pacing] may increase mortality, while unnecessary shocks for sinus tachycardia, SVT [supraventricular tachycardia], or noise/artifact/oversensing does not appear to affect long-term survival."