May 12th, 2013
How Should Recent Trials Affect CRT Practice?
Sana M Al-Khatib, MD, MHS and John Ryan, MD
In recent weeks the cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) field has been absorbing the publication of the BLOCK HF trial in the New England Journal of Medicine and the publication of the NARROW-CRT trial in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. These trials raised the possibility that CRT may improve clinical status in some patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy […]
April 26th, 2013
Conflicting Results from Two Trials of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Larry Husten, PHD
Two new trials have ended up reporting conflicting results regarding the expansion of the indication for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) for patients without a wide QRS interval. The positive results of the smaller trial seem likely to be undermined by the early stopping of the much larger trial. The first trial, NARROW-CRT, published in Circulation: Arrhythmia […]
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