New Blood Test Helps Determine Who Benefits Most From Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

Some heart failure patients benefit from having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) while others do not - a new blood test that predicts risk of death may help doctors determine who should get an ICD, Professor Samuel Dudley, from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine explained at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2012, in Munich, Germany...

via Medical News Today