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Do implantable cardioverter defibrillators lower mortality risk in patients with cardiomyopathy?

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The synopsis was written by Ruth Kirby, Research Highlights Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. His interests include the history and therapy of acute and chronic hypertrophic coronary artery disease, electrophysiology, adult congenital heart disease, the cardiomyopathies with and the clinical implications of molecular genetics.

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  1. Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine,

    Bernard Gersh

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Gersh, B. Do implantable cardioverter defibrillators lower mortality risk in patients with cardiomyopathy?. Nat Rev Cardiol 1, 16–17 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio0014

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