By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Hospital mortality increased significantly in patients 80 or older who received implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) or cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), illustrating a need for better candidacy criteria for this age group, an analysis of a large database suggested.
Compared with patients younger than 80, patients ages 80 to 85 had almost twice the inhospital mortality risk, and that risk tripled in patients older than 85 according to an article in the April 12 Archives of Internal Medicine.
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