[HTML][HTML] 2019 focused update of the guidelines of the Taiwan society of cardiology for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure

CC Wang, CK Wu, ML Tsai, CM Lee… - Acta Cardiologica …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Heart failure is a growing epidemic, especially in Taiwan because of the aging population.
The 2016 Taiwan Society of Cardiology–Heart Failure with reduced Ejection Fraction (TSOC …

The epidemic of inadequate biventricular pacing in patients with persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation and its association with mortality

KT Ousdigian, PP Borek, JL Koehler… - Circulation …, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—We classified patients' atrial fibrillation (AF), assessed its impact on
biventricular pacing (BIVP%), and determined whether AF classification or BIVP …

New devices in heart failure: an European Heart Rhythm Association report: developed by the European Heart Rhythm Association; endorsed by the Heart Failure …

KH Kuck, P Bordachar, M Borggrefe, G Boriani… - Europace, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Several new devices for the treatment of heart failure (HF) patients have been introduced
and are increasingly used in clinical practice or are under clinical evaluation in either …

[HTML][HTML] Visualization of cardiac implantable electronic device data for older adults using participatory design

R Ahmed, T Toscos, RR Ghahari… - Applied clinical …, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
Patients with heart failure (HF) are commonly implanted with cardiac resynchronization
therapy (CRT) devices as part of their treatment. Presently, they cannot directly access the …

Reduced mortality associated with quadripolar compared to bipolar left ventricular leads in cardiac resynchronization therapy

MP Turakhia, M Cao, A Fischer, Y Nabutovsky… - JACC: Clinical …, 2016 - jacc.org
Objectives: The study sought to compare survival, lead deactivation, and lead replacement
with quadripolar versus bipolar leads using a retrospective cohort of patients with newly …

Atrial fibrillation burden, progression, and the risk of death: a case-crossover analysis in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices

JP Piccini, R Passman, M Turakhia, AT Connolly… - EP …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aims Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with increased mortality, but the temporal
relationship between AF burden (AFB) and death among patients with cardiac implanted …

The association between biventricular pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator efficacy when compared with implantable cardioverter defibrillator on …

AC Ruwald, V Kutyifa, MH Ruwald… - European heart …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Aims Previous studies on biventricular (BIV) pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy-
defibrillator (CRT-D) efficacy have used arbitrarily chosen BIV pacing percentages, and no …

Rate control in atrial fibrillation: targets, methods, resynchronization considerations

EK Heist, M Mansour, JN Ruskin - Circulation, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
Controlling the ventricular rate during both paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation (AF),
initially with digitalis preparations and subsequently with-blockers and calcium channel …

Cardiac resynchronization therapy: history, present status, and future directions

LM Jaffe, DP Morin - Ochsner Journal, 2014 - ochsnerjournal.org
Background Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is one of the most exciting recent
advancements in heart failure (HF) treatment. Methods This review surveys the available …

Predicting heart failure decompensation using cardiac implantable electronic devices: a review of practices and challenges

NM Hawkins, SA Virani, M Sperrin… - European journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac implantable electronic devices include remote monitoring tools intended to guide
heart failure management. The monitoring focus has been on averting hospitalizations by …