Now, researchers at the University Department of Internal Medicine II at the MedUni Vienna (Clinical Department of Cardiology), as part of an international cooperation, have successfully demonstrated the advantages of an implanted defibrillator (ICD) as a means of prevention in patients with moderately restricted cardiac function, and that patients with the condition must be
treated as carefully as patients with
ischaemic heart failure which has developed following a heart attack, for example.
The findings show just how important it is for people with acute
ischaemic stroke (in which blood flow to an area of the brain is blocked or reduced) to be identified quickly and
treated by specialist staff in order to reduce the subsequent degree of disability.