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Volume 359:533-535 July 31, 2008 Number 5
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Home Automated Defibrillators after Myocardial Infarction

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To the Editor: In the Home Automated External Defibrillator Trial (HAT) (April 24 issue),1 Bardy et al. recruited patients who had had a previous myocardial infarction and who were not eligible for an implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD),2 at a median interval of 1.7 years after myocardial infarction. It has been demonstrated that the absolute risk of a fatal arrhythmic event after myocardial infarction is greatest within the weeks immediately after the event and declines significantly thereafter, reaching a steady state at approximately 1 year.3 In the study by Hohnloser et al.,4 prophylactic ICD therapy during the immediate period after myocardial infarction . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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