ALLMedicine™ Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Center

May 19th, 2022 - It is unknown whether His-Purkinje conduction system pacing (HPCSP), as either His bundle or left bundle branch pacing, could be an alternative to cardiac resynchronization therapy (BiVCRT) for patients with left ventricular dysfunction needing ve...

May 17th, 2022 - An unusual failure of cardiac resynchronization therapy.|2022|Higuchi S,Hsia HH,|

May 16th, 2022 - Implantation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device is usually scheduled in the compensated phase of heart failure; however, procedural safety may be sometimes disturbed in the decompensated phase. We report a case of a successful sem...

May 15th, 2022 - Atrioventricular Block (AVB) is one of the common manifestations in cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). Although pacemaker implantation is generally recommended in patients with CS complicated by symptomatic AVB, some case reports have shown that they can b...

May 13th, 2022 - Rationale Although not recognized by guidelines, there is no available data demonstrating the benefit of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) for primary prevention strategy of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) in elderly. Nevertheless, ICD are c...

Nov 3rd, 2020 - Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is one of the most effective therapies for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and leads to improved quality of life, reductions in heart failure hospitalization rates and all-cause mortality. Never...

Nov 5th, 2013 - Recent studies have provided the impetus to update the recommendations for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). This article provides guidance on the implementation of CRT and is intended to serve as a framework for the implementation of CRT w...

Jun 27th, 2013 - 2013 ESC Guidelines on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy: the Task Force on cardiac pacing and resynchronization therapy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Asso...

Aug 30th, 2011 - The Selvester QRS score translates subtle changes in ventricular depolarization measured by the electrocardiogram into information about myocardial scar location and size. This estimated scar has been shown to have a high degree of correlation wit...

May 13th, 2022 - Rationale Although not recognized by guidelines, there is no available data demonstrating the benefit of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) for primary prevention strategy of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) in elderly. Nevertheless, ICD are c...

May 9th, 2022 - Recently some retrospective or uncontrolled studies were published that compared cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) and biventricular pacing (BiV), although with a limited number of patients. Moreo...

Apr 14th, 2022 - The objective of this prospective, multicenter controlled study is to assess the feasibility of a patient-tailored implantation by creating a cloud-based pre-procedural multimodality CRT-roadmap by integration of 3D images from 3D activation seque...

Mar 24th, 2022 - NEW: Heart failure (HF) is increasing in prevalence and incidence, and is the most common reason for hospital admissions of patients over the age of 65. Therapy for HF has evolved over the last two decades. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) ...

Mar 23rd, 2022 - APOLLO study is a pre-market approval (INVICTA leads - devices under investigation - are not CE marked), interventional, prospective, longitudinal, international (European), multicenter, single arm study. The devices under investigation, the INVIC...

May 18th, 2022 - Could single-lead pacing systems for the delivery of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) match or even surpass systems with three leads? Perhaps, suggest several new comparative studies, including a small, randomized trial. Together the studie...

Apr 14th, 2022 - Pacemakers do not result in lower survival than implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) devices in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) for heart failure, a large health claims analysis suggests. Unadjusted data gave a survi...

Apr 6th, 2022 - Conduction system pacing (CSP) produced the same degree of cardiac resynchronization, ventricular reverse modeling, and similar clinical outcomes as did biventricular pacing (BiVP) in patients with heart failure and wide QRS, a small, randomized s...

Jan 18th, 2022 - Participants in the Framingham Study showed an increased lifetime risk of heart failure from 1965-1989 to 1990-2014. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology) A history of recent COVID-19 may warrant additional preoperative cardiac assessmen...

Jan 3rd, 2022 - Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improved heart function in patients who developed chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy (CHIC), according to findings from a small study published in JAMA. At a 6-month follow-up, 24 of 26 patients (83%) had e...