Background: The number of patients with congestive heart failure is growing. Cardiac resynchronization therapy has been the focus of multiple studies. It involves pacing the right and left ventricles ...

A meta-analysis of four observational studies involving 110 patients associated cardiac resynchronization therapy with ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a common condition that has a poor prognosis despite recent advances. New treatments are needed to reduce sudden cardiac death in early and less-symptomatic cases and ...

CRT is a surgical procedure in which doctors implant a pacemaker in both the right and left sides of the heart to help your heart’s chambers beat together. The goal is to improve heart pumping ...

The loss of coordinated myocardial contraction that occurs as a result of conduction delay is referred to as dyssynchrony and may be evaluated in a number of ways, usually involving echocardiography.

A meta-analysis by investigators from FDA of three major trials of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) demonstrated that women have a reduced rate of heart failure (HF) and death with CRT at a ...

The Cardiac Resynchronization in Heart Failure (CARE-HF) [1] trial was an open-label, randomized, controlled study that evaluated the effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on morbidity ...

Receipt of a cardiac-resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) offers long term benefit for patients with heart failure, reduced ejection fraction, and a widened QRS complex, according to a ...

AAMI has published a new guidance document on battery longevity management for implantable cardiac pacemakers and related ...

To the Editor: In the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT), Moss and colleagues (Oct. 1 issue) 1 enrolled minimally symptomatic ...