Cardiac resynchronization therapy: clinical results and evolution of candidate selection

C Leclercq, GB Bleeker, C Linde… - European heart …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is now a recommended treatment in patients with
severe heart failure, a poor left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction and wide QRS of >120 ms. …

Prediction of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: the selection of candidates for CRT (SCART) study

A Achilli, C Peraldo, M Sassara, S Orazi… - Pacing and Clinical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has emerged recently as an effective adjunct to
pharmacologic therapy for patients with advanced heart failure (HF), impaired left ventricular (…

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Who is and who is not a Candidate? Who Decides?

WF McIntyre, CM Seifer - Canadian Journal of General Internal …, 2016 - utpjournals.press
Introduction It is estimated that nearly 500,000 Canadians are currently living with heart
failure, a disease process associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Current status and near-future prospects

T Nakai, Y Ikeya, R Kogawa, Y Okumura - Journal of Cardiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been established as a standard treatment for
heart failure. The effectiveness of CRT has been shown in many clinical trials and realized in …

Surface electrocardiogram to predict outcome in candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy: a sub‐analysis of the CARE‐HF trial

R Gervais, C Leclercq, A Shankar… - European journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aims In CARE‐HF, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) lowered morbidity and mortality
in patients with moderate to severe heart failure. We examined whether baseline and follow…

The promise of resynchronization therapy. Who (and how many) will benefit?

A Auricchio, JC Spinelli - Cardiac Electrophysiology Review, 2003 - Springer
… The already high pulmonary capillary wedge pressure frequently present in candidates
for cardiac resynchronization therapy may be further increased. It is conceivable that patients …

Comparison of left bundle branch area pacing and biventricular pacing in candidates for resynchronization therapy

P Vijayaraman, PS Sharma, Ó Cano… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - jacc.org
Background Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with biventricular pacing (BVP) is a
well established therapy in patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), heart …

CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc scores to predict morbidity and mortality in heart failure patients candidates to cardiac resynchronization therapy

A Paoletti Perini, S Bartolini, P Pieragnoli… - Europace, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… heart failure (HF) and a combined event of HF hospitalization and death for any cause] in
patients candidates to cardiac resynchronization therapy and implantable defibrillator (CRT-D). …

Reliability and reproducibility of QRS duration in the selection of candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy

M De Guillebon, JB THAMBO, S Ploux… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… for the selection of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) candidates. However, the … and
incomplete bundle branch block, and CRT candidates. All ECGs were recorded at a 25 mm/s …

… useful to select candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy? Echocardiography is not useful before cardiac resynchronization therapy if QRS duration is …

FW Prinzen, A Auricchio - Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc
… Several multicenter prospective randomized trials have shown that cardiac resynchronization
therapy (CRT) improves functional capacity and quality of life in ≈70% of symptomatic …