Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 193-198 , February 2010

System survival of nontransvenous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators compared to transvenous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in pediatric and congenital heart disease patients

  • Andrew E. Radbill, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • John K. Triedman, MD, FHRS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Charles I. Berul, MD, FHRS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Francis Fynn-Thompson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Joseph Atallah, MD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Mark E. Alexander, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Edward P. Walsh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Frank Cecchin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Frank Cecchin, Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Received 17 June 2009 ,Accepted 11 October 2009.

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 Supported in part by the John R. Grey IV Cardiology Fellowship Fund at Children's Hospital, Department of Cardiology. Dr. Cecchin has received consulting fees and speaker honoraria from St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific. Dr. Triedman has received consulting fees from Biosense Webster and Boston Scientific. Dr. Walsh has received speaker honoraria from St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific.

PII: S1547-5271(09)01178-3

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.10.014

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 193-198 , February 2010

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