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Test Detects Need for ICD

Posted June 5th, 2006 by SCAFoundation

June 5, 2006 - A test that picks up a nearly undetectable variation in the heartbeat helps single out heart attack survivors who are likely to develop potentially deadly heart rhythms, reports the June issue of the Harvard Heart Letter. These are the people who would most benefit from getting a device called an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or ICD, which shocks the heart back into a normal rhythm if it goes astray.