Resynchronization Therapy
Electrically guided versus imaging guided implant of the left ventricular lead in cardiac resynchronization therapy: a study protocol for a double blinded randomized controlled clinical trial (ElectroCRT)
... Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established treatment in patients with heart failure and prolonged QRS duration where a biventricular pacemaker is implanted to achieve faster activation and ...
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Implant Electrical Characteristics Predict Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
... Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, Heart Rhythm Society, American Heart Association, American Society of ...
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Pacing in heart failure: focus on risk stratification and patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy
... cardiac resynchronization therapy: the Task Force on cardiac pacing and resynchronization therapy of the European Society of Cardiology ...
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Left Ventricular End Systolic Volume Can Predict 1 Year Hierarchical Clinical Composite End Point in Patients with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
... cardiac resynchronization therapy; LVEDV, left ventricular end-diastolic volume; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; LVESV, left ventricular end-systolic volume; MR, mitral ...
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Combined flow based imaging assessment of optimal cardiac resynchronization therapy pacing vector: a case report
... Background: There are still many pendent issues about the effective evaluation of cardiac resynchronization therapy impact on functional mitral regurgitation. In order to reduce the intrinsic difficulties ...
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Impact of contractile reserve on acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
... 28. Ypenburg C, Schalij MJ, Bleeker GB, Steendijk P, Boersma E, Dibbets- Schneider P, Stokkel MP, Wall EE van der, Bax JJ: Extent of viability to predict response to cardiac resynchronization therapy in ...
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves heart failure in one patient with acromegaly induced cardiomyopathy: a case report
... pharmacological therapy, surgical treatment, radiotherapy are designed to normalize serum levels of both insulin-like growth factor 1 and growth ...cardiac resynchronization therapy might be a ...
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Prediction of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy using left ventricular pacing lead position and cardiovascular magnetic resonance derived wall motion patterns: a prospective cohort study
... Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves mor- bidity and mortality in many heart failure patients, yet 1 in 3 patients fail to respond [1]. The pursuit of echocar- diographic measures of myocardial ...
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Techniques for Identification of Left Ventricular Asynchrony for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Heart Failure
... cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) by biventricular pacing in selected patients in NYHA functional class III or IV heart failure (HF) caused by idiopathic dilated (DCM) or ischemic cardiomyopathy, with ...
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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 effectiveness was observed in 70 patients (50%) < 75 years old and in 48 patients (47%) ≥ 75 years old ( p = ...cardiac resynchronization therapy ...
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Successful reduction of intraventricular asynchrony is associated with superior response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
... Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) aims at reverse remodeling by biventricular pacing and has been demonstrated to remarkably improve morbidity and mortality in CHF patients ...
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The Association of a classical left bundle Branch Block Contraction Pattern by vendor-independent strain echocardiography and outcome after cardiac resynchronization therapy
... Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an effect- ive treatment for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and left bundle branch block ...
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Right ventricular dysfunction is a predictor of non response and clinical outcome following cardiac resynchronization therapy
... device therapy in heart failure: an update of the 2008 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure and the 2007 ESC Guidelines for cardiac and resynchronization ...
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker: critical appraisal of the adaptive CRT-P device
... Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an effective and well-established therapy for patients suffering with heart failure (HF), left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction ...
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Economic impact of longer battery life of cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators in Sweden
... Methods: An economic model based on real-world published data was developed to estimate cost savings and avoided device replacements for CRT-Ds with longer battery life compared with devices with industry-standard ...
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Individualized cardiac resynchronization therapy: current status
... 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 therapy is, however, ...
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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 ...Cardiac Resynchronization in Heart Failure ...
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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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Survival after cardiac resynchronization therapy: results from 50 084 implantations
... This study has the typical limitations of an observational, retrospec- tive study using data from administrative databases which, although rich in numbers, typically lack granularity. First, we do not have data on New ...
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy guided by late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance
... The importance of myocardial viability in determining the response to treatments, such as revascularization [16-18] and beta-blockade for heart failure, [19] is well recognized. The concept that myocardial viability of ...
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