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Kaplan-Meier analysis from DARVIN I study of actual patient survival (upper line) compared with survival free of ventricular fibrillation/flutter (lower line) that in all likelihood would have been fatal in the absence of the ICD. The divergence between the lines reflects the estimated mortality reduction by ICD therapy of 24% at 3 years of follow up [29].
