Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy with or without an Implantable Defibrillator in Advanced Chronic Heart Failure

Abstract

In patients with advanced heart failure and a prolonged QRS interval, cardiac-resynchronization therapy decreases the combined risk of death from any cause or first hospitalization and, when combined with an implantable defibrillator, significantly reduces mortality.

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MedicineCardiac resynchronization therapyHeart failureCardiologyInternal medicineImplantable cardioverter-defibrillatorEjection fraction

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Year: 2004
Type: article
Volume: 350
Issue: 21
Pages: 2140-2150
Citations: 5754
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                                    Michael R. Bristow, 
                                
                                    Leslie A. Saxon, 
                                
                                    John Boehmer
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2004). 
                            Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy with or without an Implantable Defibrillator in Advanced Chronic Heart Failure. 
                            New England Journal of Medicine
                            , 350
                            (21)
                            , 2140-2150.
                            https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa032423
                        

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DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa032423