13th International Congress
THE "NEW FRONTIERS"
OF ARRHYTHMIAS 1998

January 24-31, 1998
Marilleva, Trento, Italy

S-6

Prophylactic ICD trials-1997

Stuart J. Connolly.
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

References

1.

Amiodarone Trials Meta-Analysis Investigators:
The effect of prophylactic amiodarone on mortality after acute myocardial infarction and in congestive heart failure. Meta-analysis of individual data on 6500 patients from randomized trials.
Lancet 1997; 350: 1417-1424.

2.

Siebels J, Kuck KH:
Implantable cardioverter defibrillator compared with antiarrhythmic drug treatment in cardiac arrest survivors (The Cardiac Arrest Study Hamburg).
Am Heart J 1994; 127: 1139-1144.

3.

Connolly SJ, Gent M, Roberts RS, Dorian P, Klein GJ, Roy D, Mitchell LB, Green M, Sheldon R, CIDS Co-investigators:
Canadian Implantable Defibrillator Study (CIDS): design and organization.
Am J Cardiol 1993; 72: 103F-108F.

4.

The AVID Investigators:
A comparison of antiarrhythmic drug therapy with implantable defibrillators in patients resuscitated from near-fatal sustained ventricular arrhythmias.

 

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