New therapy found to prevent heart failure
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 05:28
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 resynchronisation therapy device with defibrillator (CRT-D) versus patients who received only an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD-only)...
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