Retiming the failing heart: principles and current clinical status of cardiac resynchronization

C Leclercq, DA Kass - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2002 - jacc.org
Left or biventricular (BiV) pacing, or cardiac resynchronization therapy, was proposed nearly
10 years ago as an adjunctive treatment for patients with advanced heart failure (HF) …

Strategies to improve cardiac resynchronization therapy

K Vernooy, CJM Van Deursen, M Strik… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) emerged 2 decades ago as a useful form of device
therapy for heart failure associated with abnormal ventricular conduction, indicated by a …

Effect of resynchronization therapy stimulation site on the systolic function of heart failure patients

C Butter, A Auricchio, C Stellbrink, E Fleck, J Ding… - Circulation, 2001 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves systolic function in heart
failure patients with ventricular conduction delay by stimulating the left ventricle (LV) or both …

A randomized comparison of triple-site versus dual-site ventricular stimulation in patients with congestive heart failure

C Leclercq, F Gadler, W Kranig, S Ellery, D Gras… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - jacc.org
Objectives: We compared the effects of triple-site versus dual-site biventricular stimulation in
candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy. Background: Conventional biventricular …

Multipoint left ventricular pacing improves acute hemodynamic response assessed with pressure-volume loops in cardiac resynchronization therapy patients

C Pappone, Ž Ćalović, G Vicedomini, A Cuko… - Heart Rhythm, 2014 - Elsevier
Backgound Conventional cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves acute cardiac
hemodynamics. Objective To investigate if CRT with multipoint left ventricular (LV) pacing in …

[HTML][HTML] Epicardial left ventricular lead placement for cardiac resynchronization therapy: optimal pace site selection with pressure-volume loops

A Dekker, B Phelps, B Dijkman, T van Der Nagel… - The Journal of thoracic …, 2004 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: Patients in heart failure with left bundle branch block benefit from cardiac
resynchronization therapy. Usually the left ventricular pacing lead is placed by coronary …

Acute haemodynamic comparison of multisite and biventricular pacing with a quadripolar left ventricular lead

B Thibault, M Dubuc, P Khairy, PG Guerra, L Macle… - Europace, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Aims Pacing from multiple sites in the left ventricle (LV) may bring about further
resynchronization of the diseased heart compared with biventricular (BiV) pacing. We …

Non-contact left ventricular endocardial mapping in cardiac resynchronisation therapy

PD Lambiase, A Rinaldi, J Hauck, M Mobb, D Elliott… - Heart, 2004 - heart.bmj.com
Background: Up to 30% of patients with heart failure do not respond to cardiac
resynchronisation therapy (CRT). This may reflect placement of the coronary sinus lead in …

Impact of coronary sinus lead position on biventricular pacing: Mortality and echocardiographic evaluation during long‐term follow‐up

A Rossillo, A Verma, EB Saad… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Biventricular pacing is an established treatment for congestive heart failure.
Whether the anatomic location of the coronary sinus (CS) lead affects outcomes is unknown …

Benefits of endocardial and multisite pacing are dependent on the type of left ventricular electric activation pattern and presence of ischemic heart disease: insights …

MR Ginks, AK Shetty, PD Lambiase… - Circulation …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—There is considerable heterogeneity in the myocardial substrate of patients
undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), in particular in the etiology of heart …