Long-Term Outcome after Implantation of Cardioverter Defibrillator: An Eight Year Follow-Up Study of the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Trial II

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Heart Rhythm 2009 Faculty

Ilan Goldenberg, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Interviews with Key Contributors

The Heart Rhythm Society captured interviews with two key contribitors to the An Eight Year Follow-up Study of the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Trial II Late-Breaking Clinical Trial, Ilan Goldenberg, MD and Arthur J. Moss, MD. Access the links below to watch Dr. Goldenberg and Dr. Moss field questions about the history of the MADIT family of trials as well as the findings of this important study.

• Background on the MADIT family of trials »
  (Arthur J. Moss, MD interviewed by Leonard I. Ganz, MD, FHRS)
• Explanation of the long-term follow-up data from the MADIT II Trial »
  (Arthur J. Moss, MD interviewed by Leonard I. Ganz, MD, FHRS) 
• Describe the important role that the development of heart failure plays in the impact of the benefit of the ICD »
  (Arthur J. Moss, MD interviewed by Leonard I. Ganz, MD, FHRS)
• Describe the importance of good medical therapy in patients with ICDs »
  (Ilan Goldenberg, MD interviewed by Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FHRS) 
• Describe the impact of these longer term follow-up data on the utilization of ICDs
  (Arthur J. Moss, MD interviewed by Leonard I. Ganz, MD, FHRS)
• Take home points of the MADIT II Late-Breaking Clinical Trial Study »
  (Ilan Goldenberg, MD interviewed by Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FHRS)
  

Contributors

• Ilan Goldenberg, MD
• Arthur J. Moss, MD
• Mary Brown, MS
• John Gillespie, MD
• Iwona Cygankiewicz, MD
• Helmut Klein, MD
• Scott McNitt, MS
• Mark L. Andrews, BBA
• Wojciech Zareba, MD, Ph.D., and
• The Executive Committee of the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-II. Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY