A simplified biventricular defibrillator with fixed long detection intervals reduces implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) interventions and heart failure hospitalizations in patients with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy implanted for primary prevention: the RELEVANT [Role of long dEtection window programming in patients with LEft VentriculAr dysfunction, Non-ischemic eTiology in primary prevention treated with a biventricular ICD] study by Maurizio Gasparini, Carlo Menozzi, Alessandro Proclemer, Maurizio Landolina, Severio Iacopino, Angelo Carboni, Ernesto Lombardo, François Regoli, Mauro Biffi, Valeria Burrone, Alessandra Denaro, and Giuseppe Boriani EHJ Volume 30(22): November 14, 2009 Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author For permissions please
Distribution and numbers of all detected episodes (appropriate and inappropriate) in the two study groups. Maurizio Gasparini et al. Eur Heart J 2009;30: Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author For permissions please
Distribution of all appropriately detected episodes in the Protect (A) and in the Control (B) groups are presented. Maurizio Gasparini et al. Eur Heart J 2009;30: Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author For permissions please
Poisson regression estimates (GEE adjusted) of incidence rate ratio (IRR) values of ICD interventions between Protect and Control groups. Maurizio Gasparini et al. Eur Heart J 2009;30: Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author For permissions please
Kaplan–Meier analysis of event-free survival to first delivered therapy for appropriate (A) or inappropriate episodes (B). Maurizio Gasparini et al. Eur Heart J 2009;30: Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author For permissions please
Kaplan–Meier analysis of event-free survival to first heart failure hospitalizations. Maurizio Gasparini et al. Eur Heart J 2009;30: Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author For permissions please