Abstract
The clinical experience with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) has been limited for many years almost exclusively to devices requiring thoracotomy for placement of one or more epicardial electrodes. This has generated a significant perioperative mortality and morbidity (1,2) and has reduced the widespread clinical application of such a therapy. In the last few years, different transvenous systems have been developed and introduced into clinical practice (3–12). One of these systems (Endotak, CPI, St Paul, MN, USA) has been extensively evaluated in Italy since 1990 by means of a multicenter trial (37 centers). In this paper the results of this trial are reported.
This list of investigators is reported in the Appendix of the original work published in PACE (1995) 18:299–608.
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Gasparini, G., Raviele, A., Themistoclakis, S., Italian Endotak Investigator Group. (1996). What Are the Acute and Long-Term Results of Transvenous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators?. In: Raviele, A. (eds) Cardiac Arrhythmias 1995. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2223-2_12
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