Cardiac resynchronization therapy

Ploux, S.; Bordachar, P.; Ritter, P.

La Revue du Praticien 60(3): 315-319

2010


ISSN/ISBN: 0035-2640
PMID: 20402118
Document Number: 644734
Fifteen years after the birth of resynchronization therapy, this technique has become one of the recommended treatments in severe heart failure patients, with low ejection fraction (4 35%), and conduction disorders (ORS > or = 120 ms). Based on large randomized clinical trials, the European recommendation is class I type (level of evidence A), to improve symptoms and survival of this patient population. Recommendations have been extended to patients already implanted with a conventional pacemaker, and to those with chronic atrial fibrillation. Recent results

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