Science news articles about 'madit'

... participants in a study that reported on the use of ICDs in patients who had heart attacks (the MADIT-2 trial). Researchers said theirs was one of the first studies to examine whether the benefits ...

... that it is dramatically more cost effective as a chronic therapy. Specifically, the new study found that MADIT II patients who had an ICD for eight years had a 37 percent lower chance of death from ...

... (CRT-D) versus patients who received only an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD-only). MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) is a ...

... Arthur Moss, M.D., professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and the MADIT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial) research group showed that an implanted ...