title: [Treatment with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. Experiences from Skejby hospital during the period 1989-1994].
abstract: The aim of the present study was to evaluate survival and therapy for ventricular tachyarrhythmia in patients treated with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)-implantation at Skejby Hospital. Seventy-two patients, of which 54 were male, have received an ICD since 1989. Mean (range) age was 54 (16-74) years. Forty-nine (68%) had ischaemic heart disease. The patients were followed for a median (range) of 14 (1/2-50) months. Kaplan-Meyer plots are presented for total mortality, cardiac mortality, sudden cardiac mortality, appropriate therapy, and therapy for life-threatening tachyarrhythmia. After one, two and three years respectively, mortality was respectively 13, 27, and 32%, cardiac mortality was 5, 19, and 24%, sudden cardiac mortality was 3, 6, and 12%, cumulative incidence of appropriate therapy was 56, 66, and 90%, and cumulative incidence of therapy for life-threatening tachyarrhythmia was 19, 29 and 52%. It is concluded, that the majority of patients treated with an ICD developed ventricular tachyarrhythmia and had appropriate or lifesaving ICD-therapy during follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Hjertemedicinsk afdeling B, Skejby Sygehus, Arhus.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Christiansen
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Mortensen
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Pedersen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*