Medical Xpress October 31, 2024
New research published in the European Heart Journal shows that it is extremely difficult to predict with accuracy among patients who have had a heart attack those who will go on to suffer a sudden cardiac death, even among those with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 35% or lower—commonly used as a justification for prophylactic defibrillator implantation in those patients.
The authors of the study are an international consortium including Professor Niels Peek, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK and The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (THIS Institute), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Professor Gerhard Hindricks and Dr. Nikolaos Dagres of Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Berlin, Germany, and colleagues. The findings of the study have provided the scientific foundation for...
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