title: Current Evidence and Recommendations for Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy.
abstract: The number of people in Europe living with symptomatic heart failure is increasing. Since its advent in the 1990s, cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) has proven beneficial in terms of morbidity and mortality in selected heart failure (HF) patient populations, when combined with optimal pharmacological therapy. We review the evidence for CRT and the populations of HF patients it is currently shown to benefit, and those in which more research needs to be performed.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Specialist Registrar.
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Dewhurst
authors.affiliation: Consultant Cardiologist, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
authors.forename: Nicholas J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Linker
keywords: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy; complex devices; guidelines; heart failure; recommendations
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