Time to first shock and clinical outcome in patients receiving an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
RJ Myerburg,
RM Luceri,
R Thurer,
DK Cooper,
L Zaman,
A Interian,
P Fernandez,
M Cox,
F Glicksman,
and
A Castellanos
Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101.
The relation between time to first shock and clinical outcome was studied in 60 patients who received an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) from August 1983 through May 1988. The mean (+/- SD) patient age was 64 +/- 10 years, 82% were men and the mean ejection fraction was 33 +/- 13%. During follow-up, 38 patients (63%) had one or more shocks; there were no differences in age, gender distribution or ejection fraction at entry between the shock and no shock groups. Among 51 patients with coronary artery disease, 31 (61%) had one or more shocks, whereas all seven patients with cardiomyopathy had one or more shocks (p less than 0.05). Neither of the two patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation had shocks. Of the 13 deaths, 12 occurred during post-hospital follow-up and 1 during the index hospitalization. Of the four sudden post-hospital deaths, only one was due to tachyarrhythmia in the absence of acute myocardial infarction. All four sudden deaths and five of eight post-hospital nonsudden deaths occurred in patients who had had one or more appropriate shocks during follow-up. Eight of the nine first appropriate shocks among patients who subsequently died occurred within the first 3 months of follow-up, but the actual deaths were delayed to a mean of 14.1 +/- 13.9 months (p less than 0.05). The mean time to all deaths was 14.8 +/- 13.1 months. The ejection fraction was significantly lower among patients who died than among patients who survived (25 +/- 7% versus 35 +/- 14%, p less than 0.02), but it did not distinguish risk of first shocks.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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