The current role of cardiac resynchronization therapy in reducing mortality and hospitalization in heart failure patients: a meta-analysis from clinical trials

A Rossi, G Rossi, M Piacenti, U Startari, L Panchetti… - Heart and vessels, 2008 - Springer
Many diagnostic and therapeutic advances have been reached for congestive heart failure
(HF). However, despite clinical improvement and longer survival conferred by new …

Longer-term effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on mortality in heart failure [the CArdiac REsynchronization-Heart Failure (CARE-HF) trial extension phase]

JGF Cleland, JC Daubert, E Erdmann… - European heart …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Aims The CArdiac REsynchronization-Heart Failure study randomized patients with
left ventricular ejection fraction≤ 35%, markers of cardiac dyssynchrony, and persistent …

Patients with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy and hyper-responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy: characteristics and long-term evolution

P Castellant, M Fatemi, E Orhan, Y Etienne, JJ Blanc - Europace, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Aims In some patients with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM), left bundle
branch block (LBBB), and severe cardiac failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) …

Mortality reduction of cardiac resynchronization and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in heart failure: an updated meta-analysis. Does recent evidence …

EG Bertoldi, CA Polanczyk, V Cunha… - Journal of Cardiac …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The recent publication of the MADIT-CRT and RAFT trials has more than
doubled the number of patients in which a direct comparison of the combination of cardiac …

[HTML][HTML] Foreseeing super-response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: a perspective for clinicians

KA Ellenbogen, JF Huizar - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2012 - jacc.org
Current American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Heart Rhythm Society
guidelines (1) recommend cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) to patients with …

Ventricular asynchrony predicts a better outcome in patients with chronic heart failure receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy

MV Pitzalis, M Iacoviello, R Romito, P Guida… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - jacc.org
Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the clinical benefit of cardiac
resynchronization therapy (CRT) can be prospectively predicted by means of the baseline …

Impact of myocardial viability and left ventricular lead location on clinical outcome in cardiac resynchronization therapy recipients with ischemic cardiomyopathy

A Bose, J Kandala, GA Upadhyay… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Role of Ischemia and Scar in CRT Patients with CAD Introduction Cardiac resynchronization
therapy (CRT) recipients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) have scar segments that may …

Clinical Efficacy of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy With an Implantable Defibrillator in a Japanese Population–Results of the MIRACLE-ICD Outcome Measured …

S Momomura, H Tsutsui, Y Sugawara, M Ito… - Circulation …, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Background: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is effective in reducing morbidity and
mortality in systolic heart failure patients with cardiac dyssynchrony as demonstrated in …

Cardiac-resynchronization therapy for the prevention of heart-failure events

AJ Moss, WJ Hall, DS Cannom, H Klein… - … England Journal of …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
Background This trial was designed to determine whether cardiac-resynchronization therapy
(CRT) with biventricular pacing would reduce the risk of death or heart-failure events in …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac resynchronization therapy guided by late gadolinium-enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance

F Leyva, PWX Foley, S Chalil, K Ratib… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Background Myocardial scarring at the LV pacing site leads to incomplete resynchronization
and a suboptimal symptomatic response to CRT. We sought to determine whether the use of …