Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and heart failure may not be getting the same benefits associated with use of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) as patients with heart failure ...

Nephrologists help patients in two main ways. One is with their prowess in internal medicine; kidney doctors impress me as supreme clinicians. The other is obvious: renal replacement therapy. A bold ...

Majority of Patients Will Consider ICD Deactivation The majority of patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) would want ICD deactivation in at least one scenario describing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Remote ICD deactivation for patients receiving hospice care was successful in a small feasibility study.

heart ecg For patients with symptomatic systolic heart failure not caused by coronary artery disease, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) does not reduce the risk of all-cause mortality, ...

After 5 years, approximately one in four patients treated with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) will require reoperation, a new study shows. And while the reoperation rate varies ...

"Appropriately selected patients with NICM have the potential to benefit from primary prevention ICD therapy…Besides consideration of ICD placement, attention to guideline-directed medical therapy and ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. In certain patients with an ICD for primary prevention, ...

The largest ever randomized clinical trial of 2,500 implantable cardioverter defibrillator patients has determined that routine defibrillation testing during the implant procedure does not improve ...

Patients receiving an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) should be regularly screened for anxiety and depression, according to research presented at EHRA 2021, an online scientific congress ...

Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has concluded that the transition to ICD-10 coding has a negative effect on patient safety reporting because of ...