[SCD-FORUM] 106S RE: EXPERTS, ASK. EXPERTS ANSWER. Dr. Valero

[SCD Symposium]

In general, I agree with the answer from Dr. Buxton to Dr. Szyszko.  
In the LABOR (LatinAmerican Biotronik Ongoing Registry) registry,  
which has 1,100 patients included to date with a mean 30-day follow- 
up and in 97% of them the rate of reversion after implantation is  
documented.
We could observe, just as it has been presented in the Inter-American  
Congress of Cardiology, that most doctors do not seek the true  
threshold, but they arbitrarily evaluate 15 Joules. We have not seen  
problems in the follow-up and we believe that, if the therapy was  
successful with that energy, it is enough, especially with patients  
with low ejection fraction in whom looking for the threshold  
repeatedly to determine the real one, might mean a complication in  
the procedure.

Dra Elina M Valero

FACC, RM HRS, MT SAC

Buenos Aires Argentina







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President of Scientific Committee

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