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CRT May Help Some Infants Recover After Biventricular Heart-Defect Surgery

TORONTO, ON — Short-term cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) may improve blood pressure in infants who undergo undergo biventricular surgery for congenital heart disease, according to results of a ...
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What Is Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)?

CRT is a surgical procedure in which doctors implant a pacemaker in both the right and left sides of the heart to help your heart’s chambers beat together. The goal is to improve heart pumping ...
Medscape

Robotically-assisted Surgery Offers New Approach for CRT Patients

LV lead failure occurs in 10% to 15% of CRT cases Indisputably, the most complicated aspect of CRT is placement of the left ventricular (LV) lead through the CS and into a left ventricular epicardial ...
TCTMD

AV Junction Ablation Plus CRT Cuts Deaths in Permanent AF Subset

Atrioventricular (AV) junction ablation plus cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduces mortality in patients with symptomatic permanent atrial fibrillation (AF), a narrow QRS, and a recent heart ...
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Induction mFOLFOX6 with or without aflibercept followed by chemoradiation (CRT) and surgery in high risk rectal cancer: Phase II randomized, multicenter, openlabel trial—The ...

LUME-Colon 1: A double-blind, randomized phase III study of nintedanib plus best supportive care (BSC) versus placebo plus BSC in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) refractory to standard therapies ...
TCTMD

Safe to Upgrade From Pacemaker or Defibrillator to CRT

Upgrading a patient from an existing permanent pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to a cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device can be successfully and safely done in the ...