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Could an internal defibrillator increase the ejection fraction of the heart?
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ICD: An ICD which works only in the right ventricle doesn't do anything positive for EF. A biventricular pacing defibrillator's biV pacing component can cause small increases in EF when pacing as a BiV pacer in a patient whose native QRS duration is over 0.12 sec.
Answered 3/23/2019
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