Does prophylactic ICD therapy reduce overall mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction and clinical features that placed them at increased risk?
Prophylactic ICD therapy early after acute myocardial infarction does not reduce overall mortality in high-risk patients.
Prophylactic ICD therapy did not reduce overall mortality among patients with acute myocardial infarction and clinical features that placed them at increased risk. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00157768.)
Steinbeck et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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