Mortality benefits and the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.

Risk Stratification and Survival after Myocardial Infarction

1983 • 1,603 citations

Termination of Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias with an Implanted Automatic Defibrillator in Human Beings

1980 • 1,341 citations

The relationships among ventricular arrhythmias, left ventricular dysfunction, and mortality in the 2 years after myocardial infarction.

1984 • 1,306 citations

Long-term outcome with the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

1989 • 734 citations

Determinants of Survival in Patients with Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias

1983 • 514 citations

Long-term survival of patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmia treated with antiarrhythmic drugs

1982 • 498 citations

Prehospital Ventricular Defibrillation

1974 • 474 citations

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

1988 • 459 citations

The automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator: Efficacy, complications and survival in patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmias

1988 • 386 citations

Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators and Survival of Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias

1988 • 342 citations

Recurrent Ventricular Fibrillation and Modes of Death in Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Ventricular Fibrillation

1975 • 336 citations

Mortality in Patients with Implanted Automatic Defibrillators

1983 • 317 citations

Cardiac arrest recorded on ambulatory electrocardiograms

1984 • 249 citations

Efficacy of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in prolonging survival in patients with severe underlying cardiac disease

1990 • 217 citations

Survival after implantation of the cardioverter defibrillator

1992 • 177 citations

The Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator in Drug-Refractory Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias

1987 • 149 citations

Actuarial Incidence and Pattern of Occurrence of Shocks Following Implantation of the Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

1989 • 143 citations

Long-term survival after prehospital cardiac arrest: analysis of outcome during an 8 year study.

1984 • 140 citations

Time to first shock and clinical outcome in patients receiving an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

1989 • 135 citations

Do patients with an implantable defibrillator live longer?

1993 • 109 citations

Influence of left ventricular function on outcome of patients treated with implantable defibrillators.

1992 • 104 citations

Long-term multicenter experience with a second-generation implantable pacemaker-defibrillator in patients with malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias

1992 • 103 citations

Determinants of survival in patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmia associated with coronary artery disease

1988 • 75 citations

Benefits of implantable defibrillators are overestimated by sudden death rates and better represented by the total arrhythmic death rate

1991 • 71 citations

Symptoms and electrocardiographically documented rhythm preceding spontaneous shocks in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

1993 • 53 citations

When “sudden cardiac death” is not so sudden:Lessons learned from the automatic implantable defibrillator

1988 • 47 citations

Survival of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator recipients: Role of left ventricular function and its relationship to device use

1992 • 35 citations

Predictors of automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator discharge for life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias

1988 • 23 citations

Occurrence of ICD Shocks and Patient Survival

1991 • 21 citations

Instantaneous cardiac death in the posthospital period after acute myocardial infarction

1992 • 13 citations