implantable cardioverter defibrillator function
Inevitable high dose irradiation to lead of implantable cardioverter defibrillator in small cell lung cancer: a case report
... The function of the patient ’ s implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was checked daily, and no change in implantable cardioverter- defibrillator function was ...
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The oral cavity is not a primary source for implantable pacemaker or cardioverter defibrillator infections
... spectrum of periodontal diseases of the oral cavity affect- ing the tooth supporting tissues in response to bacterial accumulation. Constantly forming bacterial deposits on the teeth cause a chronic inflammatory response ...
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Implantable cardioverter defibrillator treatment : benefits and pitfalls in the currently indicated population
... subsequent implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy (as surrogate of SCD) in patients with previous myocardial infarction ...(LV) function and volumes and contrast-enhanced MRI for ...
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Clinical aspects and socio-economic implications of implantable cardioverter defibrillator treatment
... treatment function and the oldest implanted ICD devices did not have this function, the number of appropriate shocks in the ICD group might be overestimated when compared with the CRT-D ...
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Serum-Based Oxylipins Are Associated with Outcomes in Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Patients
... Several limitations of our study need to be considered. Since our study was by nature obser- vational, we could only identify associations but not establish causal links between oxylipins and outcomes. Although our study ...
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Scar heterogeneity on cardiovascular magnetic resonance as a predictor of appropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy
... Multiple mechanisms underlie ventricular arrhythmias. Much evidence suggests a link between ventricular scar and arrhythmogenicity [9-12]. Late gadolinium enhance- ment cardiovascular magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR) can ...
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Patient and Physician Determinants of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Use in the Heart Failure Population
... Demographic information regarding age, sex, race, insurance status, and treating physician were compiled into the registry, in addition to clinical data such as comorbidities, etiology of cardio- myopathy, medications, ...
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Serum amine-based metabolites and their association with outcomes in primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients
... Several limitations and strengths need to be considered when in- terpreting our results. Owing to the observational design of our study, we could only identify associations, but not establish causal links between ...
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Nurse- and peer-led self-management programme for patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator; a feasibility study
... they have similar self-management problems and disease- related tasks [14]. The CDSMP, which is generally led by trained lay leaders, has been proved effective in several randomised trials with 6 to 24 months of ...
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Improving rates of implantable cardioverter defibrillator deactivation in end-of-life care
... shock function is achievable by application of a magnet over the device pocket, but is only effective as long as the magnet is not removed so this should be converted to a deactivation by a cardiac physiologist as ...
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EMBLEM S-ICD Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
... • Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) and Security Systems. Advise patients to avoid lingering near or leaning against antitheft and security gates or tag readers that include radio frequency identification (RFID) ...
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Disparities in a provision of in-hospital post-arrest interventions for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the elderly population—protocol for a systematic review
... defibrillators, implantable/or exp myocardial revascularization/or transmyocardial laser revascularization/or circulatory arrest, deep hypothermia induced/or angiocardiography/or cardiac catheterization/or ...
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Multi contrast late enhancement CMR determined gray zone and papillary muscle involvement predict appropriate ICD therapy in patients with ischemic heart disease
... Sudden cardiac death is a major cause of mortality in pa- tients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). This mortality is partially attributable to malignant ventricular arrhyth- mias (VA) after myocardial infarction (MI). ...
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Non invasive programmed stimulation to identify high risk patients with implanted cardioverter defibrillator (the NIPS ICD study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Next, with Multivariate Cox Proportional Hazards Model the presence or absence of the NIPS result correlation will be determined with other risk factors affecting the possibility of developing adequate ICD interventions ...
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FEP Medical Policy Manual
... transvenous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) (TV-ICD) placement for primary prevention, the evidence includes multiple well-designed and well-conducted randomized controlled trials (RCTs) ...
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Clinical risk prediction with random forests for survival, longitudinal, and multivariate (RF-SLAM) data analysis
... just baseline covariates also demonstrates improved pre- dictive performance compared with RSF. While this is a univariate prediction problem and further research is required to understand the general properties of RF- ...
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Electrophysiologic Characterization of the Arrhythmogenic Substrate in Reentrant Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias Insights from the Clinical and Experimental Electrophysiology Laboratories
... zone of slow conduction is contained within the dense scar and this zone serves as the critical isthmus, allowing reentry to occur. The reentrant circuit has several components which include entrance, common pathway ...
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Electrical Storms in Patients with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
... Purpose: In some patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), multi- ple episodes of electrical storm (ES) can occur. We assessed the prevalence, features, and predictors of ES in ...
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Clinical Predictors of Appropriate Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapies in Primary Prevention: A Retrospective Study
... (SCD). Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) have reduced mortality and become the standard of care for these patients, as recommended by current international guidelines [1] ...
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NYHA Class II or III Heart Failure: Who Will Need an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)?
... Most of the patients who suffer from SCD do not have any antecedent arrhythmia necessitating the need to focus on primary prevention of SCD. The traditional antiarr- hythmic medications are not completely able to abort ...
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