Relative effectiveness of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and antiarrhythmic drugs in patients with varying degrees of left ventricular dysfunction who have survived malignant ventricular arrhythmias
Michael J. Domanski, MD, FACC*,
Sanjeev Sakseena, MD, FACC, FESC ,1,
Andrew E. Epstein, MD, FACC ,
Alfred P. Hallstrom, PhD ,
Michael A. Brodsky, MD, FACC||,
Soo Kim, MD, FACC*,
Scott Lancaster, MS ,
Eleanor Schron, RN, MS* for the AVID Investigators
* Eastern Heart InstituteAtlantic Health SystemRobert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, USA
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
University of California, Orange, California, USA
|| Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA

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Figure 1 Survival of patients in different ranges of ejection fraction treated with an AAD or ICD. Cum = cumulative; N = number of patients; Rel-Risk = relative risk.
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