Effect of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in patients with non-ischaemic systolic heart failure and concurrent coronary atherosclerosis.
Christina ByrneOle AhlehoffMarie Bayer ElmingFrants PedersenSteen PehrsonJens C NielsenHans EiskjaerLars VidebaekJesper Hastrup SvendsenJens HaarboAnna Margrethe ThøgersenLars KøberJens Jakob ThunePublished in: ESC heart failure (2022)
In patients with non-ischaemic systolic heart failure, ICD implantation did not reduce all-cause mortality in patients either with or without concomitant coronary atherosclerosis. The concomitant presence of coronary atherosclerosis was associated with increased mortality. However, this association was explained by other risk factors.
Keyphrases
- heart failure
- coronary artery disease
- left ventricular
- coronary artery
- risk factors
- cardiovascular disease
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- end stage renal disease
- aortic stenosis
- blood pressure
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- cardiovascular events
- acute heart failure
- atrial fibrillation
- prognostic factors
- squamous cell carcinoma
- peritoneal dialysis
- locally advanced