Letter by Longtin et al regarding article, "Rates of and factors associated with infection in 200 909 Medicare implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implants: results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry"

Circulation. 2015 Jun 2;131(22):e517. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.013417.

Authors

Yves Longtin¹, Stuart J Connolly², Andrew D Krahn³

Affiliations

¹ Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
³ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

PMID: 26034090
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.013417

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Bacterial Infections / epidemiology*
Defibrillators, Implantable / microbiology*
Defibrillators, Implantable / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Humans
Male
Medicare / statistics & numerical data*
Registries*