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Review

Cardiac resynchronization therapy for congestive heart failure

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Pages 107-110 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014
 

Abstract

Cardiac resynchronization represents a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of congestive heart failure due to systolic dysfunction. Since its modest beginnings in the 1990s, cardiac resynchronization therapy has gained widespread acceptance as a useful adjunct to pharmacologic therapy for congestive heart failure. Randomized trials have consistently shown functional improvement in patients with congestive heart failure due to systolic dysfunction, a wide QRS complex on electrocardiogram and sinus rhythm, that are treated with cardiac resynchronization therapy. This review article will address the rationale, mechanisms of action, limitations and appropriate selection of patients for cardiac resynchronization therapy.

Notes

dP/dt: Ratio of change in ventricular pressure to change in time

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