Resynchronisation therapy in patients with heart failure: Our results

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failure patients with narrow QRS complex: quo vadis?

(CRT) is an established mode of electrical therapy for advanced heart failure that is refractory to optimal drug treatment. CRT has earned its evidence-based credentials through large randomised clinical trials, which have shown significant reductions in morbidity as well as in mortality among patients with a prolonged QRS complex and moderate to severe heart failure. The recently issued guidel...

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy--new treatment for heart failure.

CLINICAL REVIEW Cardiac resynchronisation therapy for chronic heart failure

Chronic heart failure is common, affecting about 900 000 people in theUnited Kingdom andwith a prevalence of about 6-10% in people aged over 65 years; despite modern drug treatment, it carries a high morbidity and a 10% annual mortality. About a third of patients with chronic heart failure have a left ventricular ejection fraction ≤35%, up to 40% of whom are at risk of worse outcomes and more s...

Efficacy of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in the treatment of end-stage inotrope-dependent heart failure patients.

BACKGROUND AND AIM Currently, cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) is recommended only for New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV ambulatory patients. However, some recent reports have suggested that CRT could also be beneficial for end-stage inotrope-dependent heart failure (HF) NYHA class IV patients. In this report, we summarise the results of CRT implantation in a group of 11 HF inot...

Mortality in patients with heart failure treated with cardiac resynchronisation therapy. A long-term multi-centre follow-up study.

BACKGROUND Benefits of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) for survival in selected congestive heart failure (CHF) patients have been acknowledged by the 2005 ESC guidelines. AIM To analyse mortality in CRT pacing only (CRT-P) patients during at least one-year follow-up. METHODS This was a prospective, multi-site, at least one-year observational study on mortality and mode of death in p...