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Volume 130, Issue 5 , Pages 1250-1256 , November 2005

Residual high incidence of ventricular arrhythmias after left ventricular reconstructive surgery

James O. O’Neill, MB (FRCPI)
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Dr O’Neill receives support from the Fulbright Commission.
Randall C. Starling, MD, MPH (FACC)
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Yaariv Khaykin, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Patrick M. McCarthy, MD
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
James B. Young, MD, MPH (FACC)
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Melanie Hail, RN
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Nancy M. Albert, PhD, RN
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Nicholas Smedira, MD
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mina K. Chung, MD (FACC)
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Address for reprints: Mina K. Chung, MD, FACC, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Desk F15, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195

Received 17 February 2005 ,Revised 27 June 2005 ,Accepted 30 June 2005.

Description of the 3 groups. LVR, Left ventricular reconstruction; ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; EP, Electrophysiologic; Pre-op, before surgery; Post-Op, after surgery.

Description of the 3 groups. LVR, Left ventricular reconstruction; ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; EP, Electrophysiologic; Pre-op, before surgery; Post-Op, after surgery.
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Kaplan-Meier survival curve according to groups (censored for cardiac transplantation).

Kaplan-Meier survival curve according to groups (censored for cardiac transplantation).
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Kaplan-Meier survival curve (censored for cardiac transplantation) according to electrophysiologic (EP) results.

Kaplan-Meier survival curve (censored for cardiac transplantation) according to electrophysiologic (EP) results.
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Time to first therapy (within 90 days of LVR surgery) in patients with ICD firings (n = 15).

Time to first therapy (within 90 days of LVR surgery) in patients with ICD firings (n = 15).
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