title: Devices for management of sudden cardiac death: Successes, challenges and perspectives.
abstract: Over the last decades, tremendous successes have been achieved in the management of sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure by use of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. However, dramatic changes in the overall treatment of these patients have led to a significantly changed risk for sudden cardiac death. This renders a reevaluation of the role of devices for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death in patients receiving up-to-date optimal care imperative.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysiology, University Leipzig - Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: nikolaosdagres@yahoo.de.
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dagres
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysiology, University Leipzig - Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hindricks
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000639:trends*; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*