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Defibrillator May Not Help Many With Heart Failure
Date:3/16/2009

ed a defibrillator.' It is language I never use. I say, 'Lets talk awhile, and you see if it's worthwhile.' "

For Setoguchi, who no longer has a clinical practice, the decision "depends on your perspective," she said. "What do you consider a benefit? Suppose we say it can extend life for three months or six months. Is that worthwhile? It is a question that is hard to answer, one that depends on your perspective."

The study comes on the heels of a report this week indicating that many elderly people with heart failure also do not benefit from the most commonly prescribed heart medications.

That report, in the American Journal of Cardiology applied to people over 80 who have the form of heart failure in which the left ventricle fails to relax after a beat.

Cardiologists from Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, who conducted the study, also urged doctors to be more cautious in their prescriptions, keeping the possibility of side effects in mind, because elderly people often take many medications.

More information

The American Heart Association has more on implanted defibrillators.



SOURCES: Soko Setoguchi, M.D., instructor, medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Paul Dorian, M.D., professor, medicine, University of Toronto; March 17, 2009, Canadian Medical Association Journal; March 13, 2009, American Journal of Cardiology


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