Primary prevention of sudden death with implantable defibrillator therapy in patients with cardiac disease: Can we afford to do it? (Can we afford not to?).

• Authors: D V Exner, G J Klein, E N Prystowsky
• Journal: Circulation (Circulation) Vol. 104 Issue 13 Pg. 1564-70 (Sep 25 2001) ISSN: 1524-4539 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 11571253 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anti-Arrhythmia Agents

Topics

• Anti-Arrhythmia Agents (therapeutic use)
• Canada (epidemiology)
• Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic (therapy)
• Complementary Therapies
• Coronary Artery Bypass
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Death, Sudden, Cardiac (etiology, prevention & control)
• Defibrillators, Implantable (economics, statistics & numerical data)
• Germany (epidemiology)
• Heart Arrest (therapy)
• Heart Diseases (complications, economics, therapy)
• Humans
• Long QT Syndrome (therapy)
• Multicenter Studies as Topic
• Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
• Risk Factors
• Tachycardia (therapy)