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Figure 4 Example of a High-Risk Patient With EF <30%
Graphical representation of the hypothetical patient described in the text as example B. Like the patient described in example A (Fig. 3), this patient is 60 years old with reduced EF. However, this patient has additional risk factors of symptomatic heart failure and left bundle branch block (LBBB). Predicted risk for both total mortality and arrhythmic death is much higher than that of the patient without heart failure symptoms or left bundle branch block. NYHA = New York Heart Association; other abbreviations as in Figures 1 and 3.
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