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12852286

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-7-10
pubmed:abstractText
The implantable automatic defibrillator (IAD), invented in 1980, has revolutionised the management of patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmias resistant to medical treatment or ablation procedures. The number of devices implanted continues to increase in the industrialised countries and, based on the results of clinical trials, the indications for IAD are now well codified and increase as new clinical studies are published. However, the absolute number of implantations in France remains low (about 1200 to 2000, about 20 per million population) for a number of reasons: cost of IAD, absence of reimbursement by the health service which has restrained the implantation to public hospitals, and information of cardiologists for whom IAD may seem to be reserved for a few exceptional cases. Several factors suggest that the number of implantations will increase in the near future. First of all, the procedures of implantation have become much more simple due mainly to technical improvements. Then, the results of recent studies have validated prophylactic implantations of these devices in primary prevention in the post-infarction period (MADIT, MUSTT, MADIT II studies) and have demonstrated the superiority of IAD over antiarrhythmic drug therapy in terms of global survival in patients with severe ventricular arrhythmias (AVID, CIDS, CASH studies).
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0003-9683
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
96 Spec No 4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
54-61
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-2-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
[Indications for implantable automatic defibrillators: critical analysis].
pubmed:affiliation
Service de cardiologie, hôpital Lariboisière, 2, rue Ambroise-Paré, 75475 Paris.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract