BACKGROUND The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) effectively reduces sudden cardiac death in patients with severe LV dysfunction. Effect of ICD therapy on total mortality in patients on the waiting list for cardiac transplantation is still uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively analyzed 854 unselected consecutive patients (ICD therapy, n=102; 11.9%) on the waiting list f...

The purpose of this study was to predict implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) shocks using demographic and clinical characteristics in the first year after implantation for secondary prevention of cardiac arrest. A prospective design was used to follow 168 first-time ICD recipients over 12 months. Demographic and clinical data were obtained from medical records at the time of ICD insert...

OBJECTIVE Impulse control disorders (ICDs) and dopamine dysregulation syndrome (DDS) are important behavioral problems that affect a subpopulation of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and typically result in markedly diminished quality of life for patients and their caregivers. We aimed to investigate the effects of subthalamic nucleus (STN) and internal globus pallidus (GPi) deep brain st...

BACKGROUND It would be useful to identify patients at high risk of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy via additional antiarrhythmic measures to minimize the morbidity of ICD therapies. OBJECTIVE We assessed baseline characteristics for predictors of device therapy in a general ICD population. We also compared the likelihood of therapy delivery by replacement ICDs implanted f...

aim : the aim of this study was to evaluate the mortality rates and trends from gastrointestinal (gi) cancer in iranian population from 1995 to 2003. background : cancer is the third most common cause of death in iran. gastrointestinal cancer is the most important causes of mortality due to cancer. the cancer mortality data is important to monitor the effects of screening program, earlier diagn...