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Current indications for the implantable cardioverter defibrillator /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Böcker, Dirk
Other Authors: Eckardt, Lars, Breithardt, Günter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, M.A. : Blackwell Pub., [2004]
Series:Clinical approaches to tachyarrhythmias ; v. 18.
Subjects:
Arrhythmias, Cardiac > therapy.
Defibrillators, Implantable.
Table of Contents:
  • Evolution of guidelines for defibrillator therapy
  • Format of guidelines
  • Background of ICD therapy
  • Aims of ICD therapy
  • Clinical efficacy of ICD therapy
  • Alternatives to ICD therapy
  • Comparison of drugs and devices
  • Current indications for ICD therapy
  • Contraindications to ICD therapy
  • ICD therapy in specific disease states
  • CAD
  • DCM
  • Brugada syndrome
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Long QT syndrome
  • Short QT syndrome
  • Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
  • Catecholamine- or exercise-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
  • Other patients believed at high risk
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)
  • Legal implications of defibrillator guidelines