… similar to those in our study, thus indicating that this group fairly well reflects patients
undergoing CRT-D implantation in clinical practice in Italy. On comparing ACTION-HF patients with …

… outcomes in heart failure (HF) patients implanted with a … (9) studied CRT-D patients with
no AT/AF history and showed … a higher incidence of cardiac hospitalizations. Our data confirm …

… the ACTION-HF study. AF history was an independent predictor of the combination of all-cause
mortality and cardiac-cause hospitalization (… largely generalizable to broad ICD or CRT-D …

… information, clinical history, clinical characteristics, and device … or heart failure hospitalization
(B) in patients with CRT-D. … majority of deaths in patients with CRT-D are cardiovascular. …

… for ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) … The clinical characteristics
reflective of HF severity and … Trial was not designed to compare CRT therapy with CRT-D …

… ventricular arrhythmias. TRADE-HF is a prospective two-arm randomized … of atrial arrhythmias
in patients implanted with a dual CRT-D. … Table 1 summarizes the clinical characteristics of …

… cardiac rhythm in 20% of treated out-of-hospital cardiac … In a large series of patients with
RM ICD and CRT-D devices, … detailed clinical information at the time of device implantation…

… , patients who had undergone successful implantation were … -cause mortality and time to
first heart failure hospitalization. … episodes of ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (…

… used for suppression of ventricular arrhythmia, which could … The clinical characteristics of
the patients and device settings are … The long-term effect on mortality and hospitalizations was …

… device indications and were implanted with a CRT defibrillator… from 2 studies, after adjusting
for covariates, the study was … ) after the outcome (HF hospitalization or all-cause mortality), …