Abstract
We evaluated whether cardiac resynchronization therapy affects the prevalence of ventricular
tachycardia in relation to reverse remodeling in patients with end-stage heart failure.
Clinical, echocardiographic, and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) data
of 17 patients with ICDs were obtained before and after they had received an upgrade
to an ICD-cardiac resynchronization therapy device.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
March 15,
2004
Received in revised form:
March 15,
2004
Received:
December 9,
2003
Footnotes
☆Drs. Molhoek and Bleeker were supported by Grants 2001D015 and 2002B109, respectively, from the Dutch Heart Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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© 2004 Excerpta Medica Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
