Management of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with advanced heart failure

P Santangeli, JE Rame, EY Birati… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - jacc.org
Advanced heart failure (A-HF) is characterized by progressive symptoms of heart failure
despite optimal therapy. In patients with A-HF, ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) are common …

Risk of ventricular arrhythmia in cardiac resynchronization therapy responders and super-responders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MF Yuyun, SA Erqou, AO Peralta, PS Hoffmeister… - EP …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims Response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is associated with improved
survival, and reduction in heart failure hospitalization, and ventricular arrhythmia (VA) risk …

Cardiac resynchronization therapy guided by multimodality cardiac imaging

M Bertini, D Mele, M Malagù, A Fiorencis… - European journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aims Up to 30–45% of implanted patients are non‐responders to CRT. We
evaluated the role of a 'CRT team'using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and longitudinal …

Ventricular arrhythmia risk is associated with myocardial scar but not with response to cardiac resynchronization therapy

M Linhart, A Doltra, J Acosta, R Borras… - EP …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aims Sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk estimation in patients referred for cardiac
resynchronization therapy (CRT) remains a challenge. By CRT-mediated improvement of left …

Predictors and long‐term outcome of super‐responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy

A Ghani, PPHM Delnoy, A Adiyaman… - Clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background The level of improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in super‐
responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is exceptional. However, the long …

Characterizing heart failure in the ventricular volume domain

PLM Kerkhof - Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Heart failure (HF) may be accompanied by considerable alterations of left ventricular (LV)
volume, depending on the particular phenotype. Two major types of HF have been …

Cardiac resynchronization is pro-arrhythmic in the absence of reverse ventricular remodelling: a systematic review and meta-analysis

B Deif, B Ballantyne, F Almehmadi… - Cardiovascular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Aims Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been shown to reduce mortality and
heart failure (HF) hospitalization but its effects on the rate of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) …

Importance of implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator back‐up in cardiac resynchronization therapy recipients: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

S Barra, R Providência, A Tang, P Heck… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background It remains to be determined whether patients receiving cardiac
resynchronization therapy (CRT) benefit from the addition of an implantable cardioverter …

Heart failure 2016: still more questions than answers

M Metra, V Carubelli, A Ravera, AJS Coats - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Heart failure has reached epidemic proportions given the ageing of populations and is
associated with high mortality and re-hospitalization rates. This article reviews and …

Meta-analysis of risk of ventricular arrhythmias after improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction during follow-up in patients with primary prevention implantable …

A Smer, A Saurav, MS Azzouz, M Salih, M Ayan… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death in
patients with impaired left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). However, there are limited …