TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Abdellatif Hussein AU - John Camm , AU - Medhat Elrefai , AU - Yasser Baghdaday , TI - Clinical predictors for defibrillation thresholds measured intraoperatively during implantation of implantable cardioverter defibrillators / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Abdellatif Hussein , KW - Defibrillation Threshold KW - Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators KW - Non - ischemic N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Our study demonstrated that the clinical variables of male sex presence of non - ischemic cardiomyopathy, and higher degree of myocardial dysfunction reflected by lower LVEF and higher pacing thresholds may predict the group of patients who have higher DFT ER -