Decision to Implant a Cardioverter Defibrillator after Myocardial Infarction: The Role of Ejection Fraction v. Other Risk Factor Markers

James J. Bailey, Morrison Hodges and Timothy R. Church
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James J. Bailey: Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, jjbailey@helix.nih.gov
Morrison Hodges: Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation
Timothy R. Church: University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Medical Decision Making, 2007, vol. 27, issue 2, 151-160

Abstract: Background . The Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial showed that in post—myocardial infarction patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) ≤ 0.30, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) resulted in a 31% relative reduction in the risk of death when compared with a conventional therapy group. Whether further refinement in risk estimation could be achieved with additional clinical testing to qualify patients for primary prevention with ICDs remains problematic. Methods . The authors analyzed Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial registry data to estimate sensitivity and specificity of EF, ventricular premature frequency, and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia for predicting death. They combined the results with similar data from the literature and used summarizing receiver operating characteristic (meta-ROC) curves to estimate overall operational values for sensitivity and specificity for each clinical test. They estimated aggregate values for prior probability to project risks when tests were used singly and in combination. Results . The authors used arrhythmia markers and heart rate variability to further stratify low-EF patients (prior risk = 20.3%); proportionately, 20.4% were predicted at high risk ( > 30%) and 40.5% at low risk (

Keywords: arrhythmia; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; risk stratification; myocardial infarction; sudden cardiac death (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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