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• Survival after shock therapy in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator recipients according to rhythm shocked. The ALTITUDE survival by rhythm study.

  Powell BD, Saxon LA, Boehmer JP, Day JD, Gilliam FR 3rd, Heidenreich PA, Jones PW, Rousseau MJ, Hayes DL. Powell BD, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Oct 29;62(18):1674-1679. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.04.083. Epub 2013 Jun 27. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013. PMID: 23810882
• Avoiding unnecessary aggressive ICD programming after MADIT-RIT and ADVANCE III trials.

  Gasparini M. Gasparini M. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Jan 21;63(2):189-90. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.07.105. Epub 2013 Oct 16. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014. PMID: 24140667 No abstract available.