New therapy found to prevent heart failure
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 17:28
in Health & Medicine
A landmark study has successfully demonstrated a 29 percent reduction in heart failure or death in patients with heart disease who received an implanted cardiac resynchronization therapy device with defibrillator (CRT-D) versus patients who received only an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD-only).
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