Antiarrhythmic effect of carvedilol after acute myocardial infarction
Results of the Carvedilol Post-Infarct Survival Control in Left Ventricular Dysfunction (CAPRICORN) trial
John McMurray, MD*,*,
Lars Køber, MD ,
Michele Robertson, BSc ,
Henry Dargie, MB, ChB*,
Wilson Colucci, MD ,
Jose Lopez-Sendon, MD||,
Willem Remme, MD¶,
D. Norman Sharpe, MD# and
Ian Ford, PhD
* Department of Cardiology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Department of Cardiology, Gentoffe University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow; Glasgow, United Kingdom
Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
|| Department of Cardiology, Hospital University, Madrid, Spain
¶ Sticares Foundation, Rhoon, the Netherlands
# Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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Figure 1 Survival free of atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter. Dotted line = placebo; solid line = carvedilol.
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Figure 2 Survival free of any ventricular arrhythmia. Dotted line = placebo; solid line = carvedilol.
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