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Implantation of Boston Scientific COGNIS™Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator (CRT-D) Begins in China

Shanghai, China - The first patient implants of the Boston Scientific Corporation COGNIS™ cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) were successfully performed in China’s Zhejiang ...
Medscape

CARE-HF: Long-term Effects of Cardiac Resynchronization on Mortality and Echocardiography and Cost-effectiveness Analyses

The Cardiac Resynchronization in Heart Failure (CARE-HF) [1] trial was an open-label, randomized, controlled study that evaluated the effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on morbidity ...
TCTMD

MADIT-CRT: Resynchronization Ups Survival in Patients with Mild Heart Failure and LBBB

Among patients with mild heart failure, only those who have left bundle branch block (LBBB) stand to gain better long-term survival from receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in addition ...
Medscape

Criteria for Patient Selection in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

The treatment of patients with heart failure is a great challenge for cardiovascular medicine and public health systems in the coming decades. In the western world the prevalence of the disease will ...
Business Wire

FDA Grants EBR Systems Breakthrough Device Designation Status for the WiSE Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) System

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EBR Systems, Inc., developer of the world’s only wireless cardiac pacing system for heart failure, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
Medical Xpress

Upgrade to cardiac resynchronization therapy benefits heart failure patients with pacing

Upgrade to cardiac resynchronization therapy with a defibrillator (CRT-D) reduces morbidity and mortality and improves left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling compared to an implantable ...
FierceBiotech

New Data Shows Clinical Benefit of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in Atrial Fibrillation (AF)

Results Provide Evidence Supporting Potential Expansion of Indications for CRT in Symptomatic, Permanent Atrial Fibrillation Patient Population MINNEAPOLIS & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Data ...
Medical Xpress

Lasting benefits seen for cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator

Receipt of a cardiac-resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) offers long term benefit for patients with heart failure, reduced ejection fraction, and a widened QRS complex, according to a ...
FiercePharma

FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Expanded Indication for Medtronic Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy with Defibrillator (CRT-

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Circulatory Systems Devices Advisory Panel determined that the overall ...
Healio

Cardiac resynchronization therapy displays long-term benefits vs. ICD in HFrEF

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Long-term CRT-D use was tied to improved survival and time to adverse events vs. ICD therapy in patients with ...