Is ICD therapy effective and safe in pediatric patients with cardiomyopathy?
ICD therapy is effective and safe across different device types and cardiomyopathy subgroups in pediatric patients.
In pediatric patients with cardiomyopathy, ICD therapy is effective, with a low rate of inappropriate shocks. Neither ICD type (transvenous and S-ICDs) nor the cardiomyopathies subgroup revealed divergent outcomes.
Silvetti et al. (Thu,) studied this question.