Biosignal-guided personalized therapy

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading single cause of death in the industrialized world. Current guidelines recommend a prophylactic implantation of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in patients with reduced left-ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF ≤ 35%). However, most deaths afte...

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Main Authors: von Stülpnagel Lukas, Wolf Bernhard, Bauer Axel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-09-01
Series:Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2017-0037