Impact of upgrade to cardiac resynchronization therapy on ventricular arrhythmia frequency in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators


Ermis C., Seutter R., Zhu A., Benditt L., VanHeel L., Sakaguchi S., ...More

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY, vol.46, no.12, pp.2258-2263, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

Abstract

OBJECTIVES This study compared cardiac resynchronization therapys (CRT) impact on ventricular tachyarrhythmia susceptibility in patients who, due to worsening heart failure (HF) symptoms, underwent a replacement of a conventional implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) with a CRT-ICD.