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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2005; 46:2153-2167, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2005.09.019
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Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Part 1—Issues Before Device Implantation

Jeroen J. Bax, MD*,*, Theodore Abraham, MD, FACC{dagger}, S. Serge Barold, MD, FACC{ddagger}, Ole A. Breithardt, MD§, Jeffrey W.H. Fung, MD||, Stephane Garrigue, MD, PhD, John Gorcsan, III, MD, FACC#, David L. Hayes, MD, FACC**, David A. Kass, MD{dagger}, Juhani Knuuti, MD, PhD{dagger}{dagger}, Christophe Leclercq, MD, PhD{ddagger}{ddagger}, Cecilia Linde, MD, PhD§§, Daniel B. Mark, MD, PhD, FACC||||, Mark J. Monaghan, PhD¶¶, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, MD, FRCP, FACC, FESC***, Martin J. Schalij, MD*, Christophe Stellbrink, MD{dagger}{dagger}{dagger} and Cheuk-Man Yu, MD||

* Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
{dagger} Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
{ddagger} University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
§ University of Klinikum Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
|| The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Hopital Cardiologique du Haut-Leveque, Pessac, France
# University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
** Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
{dagger}{dagger} Turku PET Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
{ddagger}{ddagger} Hopital Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
§§ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
|||| Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina
¶¶ King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
*** Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
{dagger}{dagger}{dagger} Stadtische Kliniken Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Manuscript received April 19, 2005; revised manuscript received September 19, 2005, accepted September 19, 2005.

* Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Jeroen J. Bax, Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA Leiden, the Netherlands. (Email: jbax{at}knoware.nl).

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been used extensively over the last years in the therapeutic management of patients with end-stage heart failure. Data from 4,017 patients have been published in eight large, randomized trials on CRT. Improvement in clinical end points (symptoms, exercise capacity, quality of life) and echocardiographic end points (systolic function, left ventricular size, mitral regurgitation) have been reported after CRT, with a reduction in hospitalizations for decompensated heart failure and an improvement in survival. However, individual results vary, and 20% to 30% of patients do not respond to CRT. At present, the selection criteria include severe heart failure (New York Heart Association functional class III or IV), left ventricular ejection fraction <35%, and wide QRS complex (>120 ms). Assessment of inter- and particularly intraventricular dyssynchrony as provided by echocardiography (predominantly tissue Doppler imaging techniques) may allow improved identification of potential responders to CRT. In this review a summary of the clinical and echocardiographic results of the large, randomized trials is provided, followed by an extensive overview on the currently available echocardiographic techniques for assessment of LV dyssynchrony. In addition, the value of LV scar tissue and venous anatomy for the selection of potential candidates for CRT are discussed.

Abbreviations and Acronyms
  CMR = cardiovascular magnetic resonance
  CRT = cardiac resynchronization therapy
  LV = left ventricle/ventricular
  LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction
  MIRACLE = Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation study
  MSCT = multislice computed tomography
  NYHA = New York Heart Association
  TDI = tissue Doppler imaging
  TSI = tissue synchronization imaging




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