ReviewInternational journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature2023
Wearable cardioverter defibrillator for preventing sudden cardiac death in patients at risk: An updated systematic review of comparative effectiveness and safety.
Review in International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Wearable cardioverter defibrillator for transient arrhythmic risk and sudden cardiac death prevention: a systematic review and updated meta-analysis.Open heart · 2025Pooled it
- Wearable Cardioverter-Defibrillator in Patients at Transient Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death: State of the Art and Contemporary Clinical Evidence.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- A review on wearable cardioverter-defibrillators in clinical practice for sudden cardiac death prevention and heart failure management.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025Review
- Clinical outcomes during and after wearable cardioverter defibrillator use in Japanese patients with heart failure: A single-center experience.Journal of arrhythmia · 2024Article
- Appropriate use of wearable defibrillators with multiparametric evaluation to avoid unnecessary defibrillator implantation.Open heart · 2024Article
- Critical appraisal of "Goetz G, Wernly B, Wild C (2023) Wearable cardioverter defibrillator for preventing sudden cardiac death in patients at risk: An updated systematic review of comparative effectiveness and safety. IJC Heart & Vasculature 45 (2023) 101189". Comment to the authors reply.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2024Article
- Recent highlights on myocarditis and cardiomyopathies from theInternational journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2023Article
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- Prevention of Early Sudden Cardiac Death after Myocardial Infarction Using the Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator-Results from a Real-World Cohort.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Objectives: To synthesise the available evidence of wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) therapy as an add-on measure to optimal medical therapy (OMT) or as a replacement of hospital stay. Methods: An update systematic review (SR) of comparative effectiveness and safety of WCD therapy was conducted. We included randomised controlled trials (RCT), prospective comparative studies and prospective uncontrolled studies with at least 100 patients. A narrative synthesis of the evidence was conducted. Results: One RCT ( Conclusion: The only available RCT failed to show superiority of add-on use of WCD in post MI patients. Observational evidence shows that the compliance with WCD is good, but the evidence is afflicted with selection bias and the inclusion of diverse mixed patient populations diluting the ability to draw indication-specific conclusions on the utility of the device. More comparative data is needed to justify continuing or expanding use of WCD therapy.
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