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Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator linked with lower mortality in heart failure

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) use is associated with reduced short- and long-term mortality in patients with heart failure, according to late breaking research presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology and published in Circulation. Patients with heart failure are at increased risk of potentially lethal […]