Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Remote ICD deactivation for patients receiving hospice care was successful in a small feasibility study.

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) were found to have a beneficial effect on mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. In certain patients with an ICD for primary prevention, ...

Patients receiving an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) should be regularly screened for anxiety and depression, according to research presented at EHRA 2021, an online scientific congress ...

"Investigators of both trials noted that the exact mechanism of drug action behind their findings is not yet known, and they call for further prospective studies to assess routine statin use in these ...

AURORA, CO — Almost 80% of older patients who received an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) for secondary prevention after being resuscitated for cardiac arrest lived at least 2 years ...

"Appropriately selected patients with NICM have the potential to benefit from primary prevention ICD therapy…Besides consideration of ICD placement, attention to guideline-directed medical therapy and ...

Longer-term results of the DANISH trial confirm what was seen 4 years earlier: an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) does not reduce the risk of all-cause or CV mortality in patients with ...

Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...

For older patients without an indication for pacing, the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD; Boston Scientific) provides results comparable to those seen with traditional ...

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...

Researchers compared billing codes from electronic health records to accurately quantify how many skin cancers patients had. Despite keratinocyte cancers being the most common malignant neoplasms ...