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Open Access 06-09-2022 | Review Article

Implantable defibrillator therapy and mortality in patients with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy

An updated meta-analysis and effect on Dutch clinical practice by the Task Force of the Dutch Society of Cardiology

Auteurs: D. A. Theuns, T. E. Verstraelen, A. C. J. van der Lingen, P. P. Delnoy, C. P. Allaart, L. van Erven, A. H. Maass, K. Vernooy, A. A. M. Wilde, E. Boersma, J. G. Meeder

Gepubliceerd in: Netherlands Heart Journal | Uitgave 3/2023

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Abstract

Background

Primary prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) in patients with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (NICMP) remains controversial. This study sought to assess the benefit of ICD therapy with or without cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) in patients with NICMP. In addition, data were compared with real-world clinical data to perform a risk/benefit analysis.

Methods

Relevant randomised clinical trials (RCTs) published in meta-analyses since DANISH, and in PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane databases from 2016 to 2020 were identified. The benefit of ICD therapy stratified by CRT use was assessed using random effects meta-analysis techniques.

Results

Six RCTs were included in the meta-analysis. Among patients without CRT, ICD use was associated with a 24% reduction in mortality (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.76; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.62–0.93; P = 0.008). In contrast, among patients with CRT, a CRT-defibrillator was not associated with reduced mortality (HR: 0.74, 95% CI 0.47–1.16; P = 0.19). For ICD therapy without CRT, absolute risk reduction at 3‑years follow-up was 3.7% yielding a number needed to treat of 27.

Conclusion

ICD use significantly improved survival among patients with NICMP who are not eligible for CRT. Considering CRT, the addition of defibrillator therapy was not significantly associated with mortality benefit compared with CRT pacemaker.

Introduction

According to current European and American guidelines, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy is recommended for patients with either ischaemic or non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (NICMP), reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of ≤ 35%, and New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II or III symptoms on optimal medical therapy [1, 2]. The evidence for ICD benefit in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy is robust as proven in randomised clinical trials (RCTs) [3, 4]. However, the benefit of ICD implantation in patients with NICMP remains under debate. An early meta-analysis by Desai et al. demonstrated that ICD therapy in patients with NICMP was effective in reducing all-cause mortality; risk ratio (RR) 0.69, 95% CI 0.55–0.87 [5]. In the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT), the ICD had a non-significant protective effect for mortality compared with placebo among patients with NICMP; hazard ratio (HR) 0.73, 95% CI 0.50–1.07 [3]. The results of the Danish Study to Assess the Efficacy of ICDs in Patients with Non-ischemic Systolic Heart Failure on Mortality (DANISH) showed that ICD therapy was associated with a reduction in SCD but not in all-cause mortality [6]. However, 58% of the patients in the DANISH trial received cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT), which might have confounded the results by improving LVEF in some patients. In selected patients, CRT may reduce both sudden and non-sudden death when compared with medical therapy (MT). In general, patients who qualify for CRT have a higher co-morbidity burden and more advanced heart failure compared with those who qualify for ICD therapy. It is imperative to understand the value of ICD in NICMP patients with and without CRT. Previous meta-analyses of ICD trials showed conflicting results, as data of ICD and CRT‑D were combined and analyses were mixed CRT versus MT and CRT‑D versus CRT‑P [724]. Therefore, analyses to assess the benefit of ICD therapy should be stratified according to CRT use. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs to assess the benefit of ICD therapy on all-cause mortality in patients with NICMP, either with or without CRT. Relative risk estimates were then applied to real-world data from Dutch clinical practices in order to gain insight in the absolute risk reduction (ARR) and the number needed to treat (NNT) to prevent one death during 3‑year follow-up.

Methods

Search strategy

We performed a modified literature search to identify all RCTs that were included in previous meta-analyses, including DANISH. An overview of published meta-analyses after DANISH is presented in Supplementary Table S1. In addition, we searched the public domain databases PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Clinical Trials to identify RCTs assessing benefit of ICD for primary prevention of SCD in patients with NICMP between September 1, 2016, through December 31, 2020. We used the terms ‘implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, dilated cardiomyopathy, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, and primary prevention’. The reference list of identified articles was also reviewed. Studies with less than 100 participants were excluded.

Data extraction and quality assessment

Data from eligible RCTs were independently abstracted by two reviewers (AvdL, DAT) using a structured form. Data included eligibility criteria, period of enrolment, type of experiment and comparison group (ICD and/or CRT‑D versus active control, placebo or MT), duration of follow-up, proportion of crossover, patient demographics and clinical characteristics, and outcome data, including all-cause mortality (primary) and SCD (secondary).
Two reviewers (AvdL, TEV) independently assessed risk of bias using the CASP Randomised Controlled Trial Standard Checklist. This checklist includes design of the RCT (study population, comparator and measured outcomes), allocation concealment, intention-to-treat analysis, early study termination, blinding, equal intervention during follow-up, adequacy of statistical analysis and absence of selective reporting. Disagreements were discussed and a final decision was reached by consultation with a third reviewer (DAT) if disagreements were not resolved.

Data analysis

Summary statistics from the individual trials were used as patient-level data were not available for all studies. Descriptive analyses were conducted using weighted means and standard deviations for continuous variables and weighted frequencies for categorical variables.
We performed meta-analyses comparing 1) ICD-only with MT, 2) CRT‑D with MT, and 3) CRT‑D with CRT‑P, while applying the intention-to-treat principle. For all-cause mortality, we calculated the pooled estimate of HR by using the reported HRs with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Regarding SCD, we calculated odds ratios (ORs) by the raw data provided in these studies, since HRs were not reported uniformly among studies. We applied the random-effects model according to DerSimonian and Laird [25]. Evidence of statistical heterogeneity between studies was checked and quantified by the inconsistency index (I2) statistic. I2 values less than 25% and I2 greater than 75%, were considered as low and high heterogeneity respectively.
We performed sensitivity analyses to assess the contribution of individual trials to the pooled estimate by recalculating the pooled estimate after exclusion of the corresponding trial(s). First, AMIOVIRT was excluded, since it is the only trial that also included hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, sarcoidosis and myocarditis, while other trials excluded those patients. Second, CAT and AMIOVIRT were excluded, as both trials were halted due to statistical futility. We performed further sensitivity analyses to evaluate the effect of length of follow-up by comparing trials with < 3 years of follow-up versus those with ≥ 3 years of follow-up. In addition, we performed sensitivity analysis to test the effect of amiodaron by comparing pooled analyses of trials with and without amiodaron. Potential publication bias was assessed by visually examining the funnel plot. Pooled data analysis was performed with Cochrane Review Manager (release 5.4, the Cochrane Collaboration, Copenhagen, Denmark). For all analyses, a P-value ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
We then combined the results, estimates of relative mortality reduction, of the current meta-analysis with the data from the Dutch outcome in ICD therapy (DO-IT) registry to obtain estimates of absolute mortality reduction (ARR) and the number needed to treat (NNT) to prevent one death that are relevant for the Dutch outcome. The DO-IT registry is a recent primary prevention ICD study which recruited 1,640 patients reflective of current practice, to establish current baseline mortality risk of general NICMP patients [26]. Using the 3‑year follow-up data of the DO-IT registry, the cumulative incidence of mortality was calculated for NICMP patients with ICD-only therapy. Subsequently, we used the pooled HR of ICD-only therapy versus MT that was obtained in the current meta-analysis to estimate the cumulative mortality had the DO-IT patients received MT.

Results

Study selection

The initial database search yielded 2,884 articles and after removing duplicates, 2,563 potential articles were further screened (Supplementary Fig. S1). After screening of titles and abstract, 34 articles were eligible for full text screening. A total of 7 RCTs were identified in previous meta-analyses, from which we included 6 for the current meta-analysis. One RCT, Pro-ICD, was excluded as the study only enrolled 19 patients [27]. In addition, 2 non-randomised clinical trials were identified and used to assess the benefit of ICD therapy in current real-world clinical practice; the prospective, controlled study EUropean Comparative Effectiveness Research to Assess the Use of Primary ProphylacTic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (EU-CERT-ICD) and the Swedish Heart Failure Registry (SwedeHF) [28, 29].

Study characteristics

A total of 6 RCTs were included in the meta-analysis (Tab. 1): the cardiomyopathy trial (CAT), the amiodarone versus implantable defibrillator trial (AMIOVIRT), defibrillators in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy treatment evaluation (DEFINITE), comparison of medical therapy, pacing, and defibrillation in heart failure (COMPANION), SCD-HeFT, and DANISH. Four RCTs exclusively enrolled patients with NICMP and 2 trials (COMPANION and SCD-HeFT) also enrolled patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy. Two trials had 3 comparison groups each, SCD-HeFT compared ICD versus placebo versus amiodarone, whereas COMPANION compared CRT‑D and CRT‑P versus MT. Considering CRT, DANISH compared ICD (with or without CRT) with MT (with or without CRT). For the current analysis, patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy from COMPANION and SCD-HeFT were excluded.
Table 1
Characteristics of the randomised clinical trials
 
CAT [30]
AMIOVIRT [31]
DEFINITE [32]
COMPANION [33]
SCD-HeFT [3]
DANISH [6]
Author
Bansch et al.
Strickberger et al.
Kadish et al.
Bristow et al.
Bardy et al.
Kober et al.
Year of publication
2002
2003
2004
2004
2005
2016
Enrolment period
1991–1997
1996–2000
1998–2002
2000–2002
1997–2001
2008–2014
Number of patients
104
103
458
1,520
2,521
1,116
Control group
MT
Amiodarone + MT
MT
MT
Placebo (MT) or amiodarone + MT
MT or MT + CRT‑P
Inclusion criteria
DCM
LVEF ≤ 30%
NYHA class II–III
DCM
LVEF ≤ 35%
NYHA class I–III
NSVT
niCMP
LVEF ≤ 35%
NYHA class I–III
NSVT or PVC
iCMP and niCMP
LVEF ≤ 35%
NYHA class III–IV
QRS > 120 ms
iCMP and niCMP
LVEF ≤ 35%
NYHA class II–III
niCMP
LVEF ≤ 35%
NYHA class II–IV
NT-pro BNP > 200
Exclusion criteria regarding CMP
Myocarditis
HCM
Restrictive CMP
 
Familial CMP
Congenital HD
Infiltrative CMP
HCM
Infiltrative CMP
HCM
Myocarditis
Congenital HD
Myocarditis
HCM
Congenital HD
Constrictive pericarditis
Primary endpoint
All-cause mortality
All-cause mortality
All-cause mortality
Composite of all-cause mortality or hospitalisation for any cause
All-cause mortality
All-cause mortality
Follow-up (years)
2.0
2.2
2.4
1.3
3.8
5.6
Crossover
n. r.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ITT analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CMP cardiomyopathy, DCM dilated cardiomyopathy, HCM hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, HD heart disease, iCMP ischemic cardiomyopathy, ITT intention-to-treat, LVEF left ventricular ejection fraction, MT medical therapy, niCMP non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy, n.r. not reported, NYHA New York Heart Association, PVC premature ventricular complex
The primary outcome in all RCTs, except for COMPANION, was all-cause mortality. The COMPANION trial had a combined primary endpoint of all-cause mortality and HF hospitalisation. The total number of patients included in the current meta-analysis is 3,547 patients including the amiodarone arm of SCD-HeFT. Of these patients, 1,200 were treated with CRT; CRT‑D (n = 592) and CRT‑P (n = 608). Overall, the weighted mean age was 60.4 ± 4.9 years and the majority were male (73%). The weighted mean LVEF was 23.2 ± 1.7% and 63% had NYHA functional class II. Other baseline clinical characteristics are listed in Tab. 2. Considering CRT, mean QRS duration was 160 ms both in COMPANION and DANISH. NYHA III was more prevalent in COMPANION compared with DANISH, 86% versus 46%.
Table 2
Baseline characteristics of patients enrolled in the included randomised clinical trials
 
CAT
AMIOVIRT
DEFINITE
COMPANION
SCD-HeFT
DANISH
MT
ICD
MT
ICD
MT
ICD
MT
CRTP
CRTD
Placebo
Amio
ICD
MT
ICD
Enrolled patients (n)
 54
 50
 52
 51
229
229
308
617
595
847
845
829
560
556
Patient characteristics
Age, years
 52
 52
 60
 58
 58
 58
 68
 67
 66
 60
 60
 60
 63
 64
Male
 77
 86
 74
 67
 70
 73
 69
 67
 67
 77
 76
 77
 72
 73
AF
 11
 20
n. r.
n. r.
 26
 23
n. r.
n. r.
n. r.
 14
 16
 17
 20
 24
niCMP
100
100
100
100
100
100
 41
 46
 45
 47
 50
 48
100
100
Duration of HF, years
  2.5
  3
  1.8
  2.2
  3.3
  2.4
  4.9
n. r.
  4.4
n. r.
n. r.
n. r.
  1.5
  1.7
LVEF, %
 25
 24
 23
 22
 22
 21
 22
 20
 22
 25
 25
 24
 25
 25
NYHA class
– I
  
 13
 18
 18
 25
        
– II
 64
 67
 63
 64
 61
 54
   
 70
 71
 68
 54
 53
– III
 36
 33
 24
 16
 21
 21
 82
 87
 86
 30
 29
 32
 46
 47
QRS duration, ms
114
102
n. r.
n. r.
116
115
158
160
160
n. r.
n. r.
n. r.
145
146
CRT
  0
  0
  0
  0
  0
  0
  0
100
100
  0
  0
  0
 57
 58
Pharmacological therapy
Amiodarone
n. r.
n. r.
100
  0
  7
  4
 55
n. r.
 55
n. r.
100
n. r.
  6
  6
Betablocker
  4
  4
 50
 53
 84
 86
 66
 68
 68
 69
 69
 69
 92
 92
ACE/ARB
 98
 94
 81
 90
 96
 97
 89
 89
 90
 98
 97
 94
 97
 96
MRA
n. r.
n. r.
 19
 20
n. r.
n. r.
 55
 53
 55
n. r.
n. r.
 20
 57
 59
Continuous data are presented as mean or median and categorical data as percentage
ACE angiotensin-converting enzyme, AF atrial fibrillation, ARB angiotensin receptor blocker, CRT cardiac resynchronisation therapy, CRT‑D cardiac resynchronisation defibrillator, CRT‑P cardiac resynchronisation pacemaker, HF heart failure, ICD implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, LVEF left ventricular ejection fraction, MT medical therapy, niCMP non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy, n.r. not reported, NYHA New York Heart Association, OMT optimal medical therapy

Quality assessment and publication bias

The method of sequence generation was adequate, and allocation was adequately concealed. Analysis was performed on an intention-to-treat basis and crossovers were reported. Overall, bias was observed in the blinding of participants or failure of binding reporting and selection bias was present among the trials. Funnel plots did not reveal publication bias for comparison of ICD-only versus MT regarding all-cause mortality and SCD. No publication bias was also observed for comparison of CRT‑D versus CRT‑P regarding all-cause mortality.

All-cause mortality, ICD-only therapy versus medical therapy

All-cause mortality was reported in 5 trials enrolling 1,928 patients with 962 in the ICD group and 966 in the MT group. Pooling data from these 5 trials showed a significant reduction in all-cause mortality with use of an ICD (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.62–0.93; I2 = 0%; P = 0.008) (Fig. 1).
We performed sensitivity analyses to examine the stability of this finding. First, we excluded AMIOVIRT, which enrolled a heterogeneous cohort of patients with NICMP. Second, we excluded the first two primary prevention trials focussing on NICMP, CAT and AMIOVIRT, which were both halted early due to futility. There was no apparent change in results; (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.61–0.94) versus (HR 0.75, 95% CI 0.60–0.94). To further examine whether DANISH had an impact on reduction of all-cause mortality, data of the pre-DANISH trials were pooled. All-cause mortality was significantly reduced by ICD-only therapy (HR 0.72, 95% CI 0.56–0.93; I2 = 0%; P = 0.01). Regarding the length of follow-up, pooled analysis of trials with < 3 years follow-up showed a trend towards more benefit of ICD-only therapy (HR 0.68, 95% CI 0.43–1.06 I2 = 0%; P = 0.09) versus those with follow-up ≥ 3 years (HR 0.78, 95% CI 0.62–0.99; I2 = 0%; P = 0.04). However, no difference between groups was found (P = 0.58).
Two trials, AMIOVIRT and SCD-HeFT, enrolled patients under amiodarone therapy as control group. Using event data, pooled data-analysis also showed a significant benefit of ICD-only therapy in reducing all-cause mortality (OR 0.73, 95% CI 0.59–0.91; P = 0.005; I2 = 0%). We performed a sensitivity analysis designed to test the effect of amiodarone by comparing the pooled analysis of trials with amiodarone as MT versus those without amiodarone as MT. We found no difference between these groups (P = 0.73).

Sudden cardiac death, ICD-only therapy versus medical therapy

Two trials, DEFINITE and SCD-HeFT, reported on SCD enrolling 1,250 patients with 627 in the ICD group and 623 in the MT group. The pooled HR for the ICD in reducing SCD was 0.30 (95% CI 0.16–0.56; I2 = 0%; P = 0.0002) (Fig. 2). The DANISH trial also reported a significant reduction in SCD in the ICD group (HR 0.50; 95% CI 0.31–0.82; P = 0.005). However, this comparison was ICD and CRT‑D versus MT with or without CRT‑P.

All-cause mortality, CRT-D versus medical therapy and CRT-D versus CRT-P

The COMPANION trial reported on the comparison of patients with CRT‑D versus those with MT (HR 0.50, 95% CI 0.29–0.88; P = 0.015). The DANISH trial reported on the comparison of patients with a CRT‑D versus those with a CRT‑P (HR 0.91, 95% CI 0.64–1.29; P = 0.59). Data on the comparison between CRT‑D and CRT‑P has recently been published by the COMPANION investigators (HR 0.54, 95% CI 0.34–0.86; P = 0.009). The pooled HR showed no reduction in all-cause mortality among patients treated with CRT‑D compared with those with CRT‑P (HR 0.74, 95% CI 0.47–1.16; P = 0.19) (Fig. 3).

Estimates of absolute effects in the Dutch population

Fig. 4 shows the cumulative mortality of NICMP patients with ICD-only therapy enrolled in the DO-IT registry, which was 3.6%, 7.3%, and 12.8% at 1, 2 and 3 years, respectively. Assuming that hazards of mortality were constant during each year, these observations correspond with hazards of mortality of 0.037, 0.039 and 0.062 in the three respective follow-up years. Based on the current meta-analysis, the hazards would have been 1/0.76 times higher (as the HR for the comparison of ICD-only versus MT was 0.76) if the DO-IT patients had been treated with MT only: 0.048, 0.052 and 0.081. Using these hazards, and applying the exponential survival model, had the DO-IT patients received MT, the expected cumulative mortality at 3 years is 16.5%. Hence, the estimated ARR comparing ICD-only versus MT after 3 years follow-up based on this Dutch registry is 3.7% and the NNT 27.0. In terms of life years gained (difference between the areas under the cumulative survival curves), the NNT is estimated at 19.3.

Comparison with real-world clinical data

The prospective, controlled study EU-CERT-ICD assessed the clinical effectiveness of primary prevention ICD therapy. Non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy was present in 35% of enrolled patients. All-cause mortality was significantly reduced in the ICD group compared with MT (HR 0.59, 95% CI 0.38–0.91; P = 0.017). When pooling data of the RCTs with EU-CERT-ICD, all-cause mortality was significantly reduced by use of an ICD (HR 0.72, 95% CI 0.60–0.87; I2 = 0%; P < 0.001) (Fig. 5).
The SwedeHF registry evaluated the association between primary prevention ICD therapy and all-cause mortality in a large, contemporary cohort of patients with HF and reduced LVEF. ICD recipients were propensity matched 1:1 to non-ICD recipients, both groups were with and without CRT. When pooling data of DANISH with SwedeHF, all-cause mortality was reduced in the ICD-group, including CRT, compared with MT (HR 0.82, 95% CI 0.67–1.00; I2; P = 0.05) (Fig. 6).

Discussion

The current meta-analysis provides an important additional insight in ICD therapy for NICMP by stratifying according to CRT use. The major finding of our meta-analysis is that ICD-only therapy as primary prevention in patients with NICMP is associated with a 24% reduction in all-cause mortality and a 70% reduction in SCD compared with MT. In order to assess risk and benefit of ICD-only therapy in Dutch clinical practices, the pooled estimate was applied to the DO-IT registry. The 3‑year ARR is 3.7% (NNT 27.0) and in terms of life years gained (NNT 19.3). Considering CRT-eligible patients with NICMP, we found that there was no significant association with a reduction in all-cause mortality of CRT‑D versus CRT‑P.

ICD-only therapy

In patients with NICMP not eligible for CRT, ICD-only therapy significantly reduces all-cause mortality (HR 0.76). Compared with the result of a previous meta-analysis prior to the DANISH trial (HR 0.74) [34], incorporation of ICD-only data from DANISH in the analysis only had a weak effect on survival benefit of ICD therapy. The EU-CERT-ICD study demonstrated that ICD-only therapy was associated with a 59% reduction in all-cause mortality in contemporary patients with NICMP [28]. When pooling the data of RCTs and the EU-CERT-ICD study, ICD-only therapy significantly reduced all-cause mortality by 28%. Based on these results, primary prophylactic ICD therapy should remain the standard therapy in patients with NICMP, LVEF ≤ 35%, and NYHA class II–III, and without an indication for CRT.

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy

The COMPANION trial was the first study to demonstrate a significant reduction in all-cause mortality by CRT compared with MT in patients with NICMP and intraventricular conduction delay [33]. Only recently, the COMPANION investigators evaluated the outcomes of CRT‑D compared with CRT‑P by aetiology of HF. This post-hoc analysis found that in patients with NICMP, CRT‑D was associated with reduced all-cause mortality compared with CRT‑P [35]. In contrast, no difference in all-cause mortality between CRT‑D and CRT‑P was observed in the DANISH trial [6]. In pooled analysis of COMPANION and DANISH, CRT‑D was not significantly associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality in CRT-eligible patients with NICMP. Several aspects may contribute to the disparity in results among COMPANION and DANISH. Compared with DANISH, patients in COMPANION had more advanced HF; NYHA class III or IV and a mean baseline LVEF of 20%, while the majority of patients in DANISH had NYHA class II and a mean baseline LVEF of 25%. In addition, guideline-directed MT, including beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers, and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, was more robust in DANISH. Newer medications such as sacubitril/valsartan and sodium-glucose cotransporter‑2 inhibitors have shown to reduce all-cause mortality [36, 37]. However, these drugs were not available for HF treatment in both DANISH and COMPANION and thus does not explain the difference in results between both trials. Important to note is that both trials were not specifically powered to assess whether the addition of ICD back-up would benefit CRT-eligible patients with NICMP.
The importance of ICD back-up in CRT patients has been evaluated in two meta-analyses. Barra et al. found a trend towards reduced all-cause mortality by CRT‑D in patients with NICMP (HR 0.79) [38]. The recent meta-analysis by Patel et al. found no significant reduction in all-cause mortality by CRT‑D compared with CRT‑P [39]. They found a pooled HR of 0.92 (95% CI 0.83–1.02) which was similar to the one observed in DANISH (HR 0.91, 95% CI 0.64–1.29). Despite the beneficial effects of CRT, mortality is not uniform among patients as CRT-candidates have heterogeneous risk profiles. Patients may have mild to severe HF, different HF aetiology, and different burden of various potentially co-existing comorbidities.
Previous studies have shown substantial risk of mortality in ICD patients who have concomitant non-cardiac comorbidities [4042]. A meta-analysis of four RCTs evaluating the survival benefit of primary prevention ICDs demonstrated that patients with extensive comorbidity may experience less benefit from ICD compared with those with less comorbidity [43]. In the Cause of Death Analysis of Patients With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CeRtiTuDe) registry, mortality was significantly higher among CRT‑P patients which was almost entirely attributed to non-SCD [44]. The CRT‑P patients were older, had more advanced HF and co-morbidities when compared with CRT‑D patients. In a post-hoc analysis of DANISH, ICD therapy was associated with reduced all-cause mortality in patients ≤ 70 years of age [45]. Older patients were more likely to die of non-sudden cardiac death.

Impact on clinical practice

The evidence for mortality benefit by ICDs in patients with NICMP has always been less robust compared with patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy. The results of DANISH suggested that ICDs may not reduce all-cause mortality and questioned even more the role of ICD therapy in NICMP. So which patients with NICMP might obtain a worthwhile benefit from prophylactic ICD therapy? Our meta-analysis provides important considerations of ICD therapy for this patient group. Considering patients who are eligible for CRT, the results of our analysis are concordant with DANISH; we found no significant reduction in all-cause mortality in CRT-eligible patients who received a CRT‑D compared with CRT‑P. For non-CRT-eligible patients with NICMP, ICD-therapy is associated with a significant reduction in all-cause mortality. We have to keep in mind that mortality risk is not uniform among patients. In addition, the absolute benefit of ICD therapy may have diminished with reductions in the absolute rate of cardiovascular death due to advances in MT and device therapy such as CRT.
At face value, patients who are older and who are afflicted by more comorbidities are less likely to benefit from ICD therapy either with or without CRT. In clinical practice, an individualised approach focusing on risk stratification may assist physicians in a shared decision-making process whether a patient will benefit from ICD therapy [26, 46, 47]. Of note, NICMP is a heterogeneous condition with a variety of causes, and the risk of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias is higher in some conditions (e.g. sarcoidosis, phospholamban mutation). For patients with these specific conditions, models have been developed to assess the risk of SCD [4850].

Strengths and limitations

The strength of this meta-analysis is that the analysis on ICD benefit was stratified for CRT status and data were compared with real-world clinical data to perform a risk/benefit analysis. The primary limitation of this analysis is the absence of patient-level data, which limited the ability to assess ICD benefit in subgroups. The absence of patient-level data prevented the exploration of the impact of baseline mortality risk on ICD benefit. Considering CRT, studies reporting outcomes on CRT‑P versus CRT‑D were limited in number and sample size, which limits the ability to make conclusions in the CRT sub-group. In general, age and co-morbidities may confound whether ICD therapy with or without CRT may improve survival or not.

Conclusion

The current meta-analysis supports the use of ICD for primary prevention of SCD in patients with NICMP who are not eligible for CRT. When applied to Dutch clinical practice, ICD-only therapy has a 3-year ARR of 3.7% (NNT 27.0) and in terms of life years gained (NNT 19.3). Considering CRT, we found no significant association with a reduction in all-cause mortality in patients with NICMP receiving CRT‑D as compared with CRT‑P. Further research is needed to assess the efficacy of CRT‑D in comparison to CRT‑P in patients with NICMP.

Conflict of interest

D.A. Theuns has received research grants from Biotronik and Boston Scientific, and consulting fees from Boston Scientific. P.P. Delnoy has received speaker and consulting fees from Abbott, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Microport and Medtronic. C.P. Allaart has received institutional research grants from Abbott, Biotronik and Medtronic, and received speaker fees from Abbott and Biotronik. K. Vernooy is listed as consultant for Abbott, Medtronic and received speaker fees from Abbott, Medtronic and Microport. T.E. Verstraelen, A.C.J. van der Lingen, L. van Erven, A.H. Maass, A.A.M. Wilde, E. Boersma and J.G. Meeder declare that they have no competing interests.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Implantable defibrillator therapy and mortality in patients with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy
An updated meta-analysis and effect on Dutch clinical practice by the Task Force of the Dutch Society of Cardiology
Auteurs
D. A. Theuns
T. E. Verstraelen
A. C. J. van der Lingen
P. P. Delnoy
C. P. Allaart
L. van Erven
A. H. Maass
K. Vernooy
A. A. M. Wilde
E. Boersma
J. G. Meeder
Publicatiedatum
06-09-2022
Uitgeverij
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Gepubliceerd in
Netherlands Heart Journal / Uitgave 3/2023
Print ISSN: 1568-5888
Elektronisch ISSN: 1876-6250
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12471-022-01718-3

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