Preventive placement of ICDs for less severe heart failure may improve survival
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 06:01
in Health & Medicine
An examination of the benefit of preventive placement of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in patients with a less severe level of heart failure, a group not well represented in clinical trials, finds significantly better survival at three years than that of similar patients with no ICD, according to a study.