First for Women on MSN5 天
Doctors Said I Was Just Stressed, but My Heartbeat Was So Fast I Could Have Died
When I was 38 years old, I was working as an accounting consultant and in good health-or so I thought. But in October 2020, I ...
Medscape1 天
Myocardial Injury Secondary to ICD Shocks
Raed Abu Sham'A, M.D.; Pablo Nery, M.D.; Mouhannad Sadek, M.D.; Derek Yung, M.D.; Calum Redpath, M.D.; Mark Perrin, M.D.; Bradley Sarak; David Birnie, M.B.CH.B., M.D ...
Medscape2 天
Myocardial Injury Secondary to ICD Shocks
Background: Patients who receive appropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) shocks have a subsequent adverse prognosis. Most data suggest that patients with inappropriate ICD shocks ...
Nature3 个月
Mortality risk and patients' quality of life on ICD therapy: insights from SCD-HeFT
Multiple implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks can impair a patient's quality of life, and the long-term prognosis associated with shocks remains undefined. In 2008, two published ...
Healio9 年
Automated Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD) Topic Review
An automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD or AICD) is a permanent device in which a lead (wire) inserts into the right ventricle and monitors the heart rhythm. It is implanted ...