Dibbendhu Khanra, Abdul Hamid, Peysh Patel, John Tomson, Ahmed Abdalla, Nasrin Khan, Rory Dowd, Nakul Chandan, Christopher Osagie, Tomilola Jinadu, Selvakumar Velu, Anita Arya, Charles Spencer, Craig Barr, Sanjiv Petkar
Background: PRAETORIAN is the first randomized controlled trial that demonstrated the noninferiority of subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD) in comparison with transvenous ICD (TV-ICD). We retrospectively reviewed electronic records of patients with ICD implanted over the past 6 years, with the primary objective to compare our real-world single tertiary center experience with the randomized data from the PRAETORIAN study. Methods: Seventy S-ICD patients were compared with 197 TV-ICD patients, from July 2014 to June 2020 retrospectively, over a median period of 1304 days (296-2451 days)...
April 2022: Journal of Arrhythmia