Combined Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging and C-Reactive Protein Levels Identify a Cohort at Low Risk for Defibrillator Firings and Death
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Letter by Obeyesekere regarding article, "Combined cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and C-reactive protein levels identify a cohort at low risk for defibrillator firings and death".
BACKGROUND Annually, ≈80,000 Americans receive guideline-based primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), but appropriate firing rates are low. Current selection criteria for ICDs rely on left ventricular ejection fraction, which lacks sensitivity and specificity. Because scar-related myocardial tissue heterogeneity is a substrate for life-threatening arrhythmias, we hyp...
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تاریخ انتشار 2012