Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Individualized cardiac resynchronization therapy: current status
... Abstract: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has shown a substantial reduction in heart failure patient morbidity and mortality, with improvement in quality of life as well as ...The ...
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Improvement in circulating endothelial progenitor cells pool after cardiac resynchronization therapy: increasing the list of benefits
... CRT: Cardiac resynchronization therapy; DCM: Dilated cardiomyopathy (non- ischemic cardiomyopathy); EDTA: Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; EPCs: Endothelial progenitor cells; FITC: Fluorescein ...
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker: critical appraisal of the adaptive CRT-P device
... Abstract: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an effective and well-established therapy for patients suffering with heart failure, left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction (ejection ...
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Successful Treatment of Cardiac Failure Due to Cardiomyopathy in Propionic Acidemia by Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and Hemodialysis in a Young Adult
... low-output cardiac syndrome with massive mitral regurgita- tion and left ventricular ...dyssynchrony. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and continuous hemodiafiltration followed by ...
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Pacing in heart failure: focus on risk stratification and patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy
... on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy: the Task Force on cardiac pacing and resynchronization therapy of the European Society of Cardiology ...
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Speckle tracking echocardiography analyses of myocardial contraction efficiency predict response for cardiac resynchronization therapy
... for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), our study show the prolonged TCT at baseline in responder group, and it may can be further explained in the electrophysiology of ...
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Pre-implant right ventricular function might be an important predictor of the response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
... Objective: Cardiac resynchronization therapy is proven efficacious in patients with heart failure (HF). Presence of biventricular HF is associated with a worse prognosis than having only left ...
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A prospective evaluation of cardiovascular magnetic resonance measures of dyssynchrony in the prediction of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
... Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is established as an effective treatment in selected heart failure patients with evidence of dyssynchrony, improving both morbidity and mortality ...
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Techniques for Identification of Left Ventricular Asynchrony for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Heart Failure
... The most recent treatment option of medically refractory heart failure includes cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) by biventricular pacing in selected patients in NYHA functional class III or ...
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves heart failure in one patient with acromegaly induced cardiomyopathy: a case report
... tient’s cardiac function did not seem to take a favorable turn upon ...ical therapy, surgical indication was rarely assessed by neu- rosurgeons, and stereotactic radiosurgery together with pharmacotherapy ...
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Hemodynamic device-based optimization in cardiac resynchronization therapy: concordance with systematic echocardiographic assessment of AV and VV intervals
... CRT, cardiac resynchronization therapy; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; RV, right ventricle; LV, left ventricle; ms, milliseconds; R, right; L, ...
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Predictors of clinical outcomes after cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients ≥75 years of age: a retrospective cohort study
... Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has become a standard therapy for patients with chronic heart failure (HF) related to reduced left ventricular ejection fraction ...
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Strain dyssynchrony index determined by three-dimensional speckle area tracking can predict response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
... Background: We have previously reported strain dyssynchrony index assessed by two-dimensional speckle tracking strain, and a marker of both dyssynchrony and residual myocardial contractility, can predict response to ...
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Implementation of seven echocardiographic parameters of myocardial asynchrony to improve the long-term response rate of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)
... Cardiac resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is an effective therapy for chronic heart failure with beneficial hemody- namic effects and a reduction of morbidity and mortality ...expensive ...
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Image guided left ventricular lead implantation for cardiac resynchronization therapy : assessment of the left phrenic nerve and coronary sinus
... in cardiac resynchronization therapy. Introduction. Cardiac resynchronization therapy can be used to resynchronize a dyssynchronous ventricle contraction in patients with heart ...
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Strain-time curve analysis by speckle tracking echocardiography in cardiac resynchronization therapy: Insight into the pathophysiology of responders vs. non-responders
... Background: Patients with non-ischemic heart failure etiology and left bundle branch block (LBBB) show better response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). While these patients have the most ...
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Double left ventricular pacing following accidental malpositioning of the right ventricular electrode during implantation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy device
... successful cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) procedures, however, combined pacing of RV and LV usually results in a RBBB configuration and a misplaced RV-lead may therefore be ...
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Precision of a Parabolic Optimum Calculated from Noisy Biological Data, and Implications for Quantitative Optimization of Biventricular Pacemakers (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
... (“cardiac resynchronization therapy”, CRT) to allow adjustment of the relative timings of activation of parts of the ...maximize cardiac func- tion is called ...
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Impact of contractile reserve on acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
... to cardiac resynchronization therapy in ischemic heart failure ...to cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with ischaemic ...
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy guided by cardiovascular magnetic resonance
... diac resynchronization therapy (CRT) was provided by Cazeau et al who, in 1994, treated a 54 year old heart failure patient with four-chamber pacing ...improves cardiac output ...the Cardiac ...
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