title: Device therapy for acute systolic heart failure and atrial fibrillation.
abstract: Patients with newly diagnosed cardiomyopathy require careful assessment of cause and initiation of treatment before the decision is made to implant an internal cardiac defibrillator. In patients with medicine-refractory atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy, atrioventricular node ablation and implantation of a biventricular pacemaker is the therapy of choice when tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy is suspected and curative therapy is not possible.
authors: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 322, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
authors: Steven K
authors: SK
authors: Carlson
authors: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 322, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. Electronic address: Rahul.Doshi@med.usc.edu.
authors: Rahul N
authors: RN
authors: Doshi
mesh_terms: D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000628:therapy*; D058406:Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D005080:Exercise Test; D054143:Heart Failure, Systolic / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Atrioventricular node ablation; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Internal cardiac defibrillator; Pacemaker