Smarter deployment of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in nonischemic cardiomyopathy: feasible or mythical?

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 May 13;63(18):1890-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.12.022. Epub 2014 Jan 30.

Authors

James P Daubert¹, Robert K Lewis²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiology Division, and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Electronic address: james.daubert@duke.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiology Division, and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

PMID: 24486276
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.12.022

No abstract available

Keywords: arrhythmia; cardiomyopathy; sudden death.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / diagnosis*
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / mortality*
Death, Sudden, Cardiac / epidemiology*
Female
Humans
Male