ICDs May Not Help Reduce Mortality For Patients With More Advanced CKD.

MedPage Today  (11/28, Phend) reports, "Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) did not help in reducing mortality for patients with more advanced chronic kidney disease, according to a single-center study" published in Europace. Investigators found that "poorer kidney function among ICD recipients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) boosted mortality risk 48% for each 10 mL/min/1.73 m2 reduction in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, P<0.001)." The researchers reported that, "in this group, appropriate ICD therapy had no significant effect on mortality."