Is anyone too old for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator?

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2009 Jan;2(1):6-8. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.108.842369.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / economics
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / etiology
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / mortality
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / prevention & control*
  • Comorbidity
  • Defibrillators, Implantable* / economics
  • Electric Countershock / economics
  • Electric Countershock / instrumentation*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Patient Selection
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Primary Prevention / economics
  • Primary Prevention / instrumentation*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / complications
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / economics
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / mortality
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / therapy*