European Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Survey Ii: Comparison of Results in Georgia with other Countries
Papiashvili, G.; Machitidze, G.; Linde, C.; Normand, C.; Dickstein, K.
Georgian Medical News 286: 50-54
2019
ISSN/ISBN: 1512-0112 PMID: 30829589 Document Number: 698201
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an important treatment modality for patients with heart failure with a reduced ejection fraction and interventricular conduction delay which is supported by current guidelines from major medical societies. One of the largest international clinical practice surveys regarding the CRT - CRT Survey II was conducted from October 2015 to December 2016 in 42 ESC member countries. We compared the outcome data of the CRT Survey II with the Georgian cohort, where 24 patients were enrolled from 2 participating medical centers of Georgia. Despite CRT II Survey analysis did show us some similarities, there were also multiple, notable differencies between Georgian population and all other European countries' data, which can be explained by a number of socio-economic or healthcare-related factors.