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Amiodarone or Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator in Chagas Cardiomyopathy

JAMA Cardiology

This randomized clinical trial assesses whether cardioverter-defibrillator implantation is more effective than amiodarone therapy for the primary prevention of all-cause mortality and secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death, hospitalization for heart failure, and use of a pacemaker among patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy.

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Implicity Earns FDA Clearance for New Heart Failure Prediction Algorithm

DAIC

Based on the Health Data Hub complete medico-administrative database and comprehensive datasets from Implicity's AI -based remote monitoring platform, the Implicity team trained and validated a machine learning algorithm that assesses the risk of future heart failure events, enabling physicians to intervene before a patient requires hospitalization.

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Ventricular Fibrillation, ICD, LBBB, QRS of 210 ms, Positive Smith Modified Sgarbossa Criteria, and Pacemaker-Mediated Tachycardia

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He was defibrillated, but they also noticed that he was being internally defibrillated and then found that he had an implantable ICD. He was unidentified and there were no records available After 7 shocks, he was successfully defibrillated and brought to the ED. Pacemaker mediated tachycardia! There was no bystander CPR.

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Today’s vlog is on the subject of heart failure and in particular on a special type of pacemaker which can make a significant improvement to the quality of life and length of life in patients with heart failure. What is heart failure? You can download this script as a Hindi translation here.

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Review on Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices: Key Points

American College of Cardiology

The following are key points to remember from a review article on cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), which include pacemakers for bradycardia, biventricular pacemakers for heart failure, and implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs) for the treatment of sudden cardiac death:

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CRT-P and CRT-D

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

CRT is used in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. According to the Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction has left ventricular ejection fraction of 40% or less. CRT stands for cardiac resynchronization therapy.

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Long?term outcome after upgrade to cardiac resynchronization therapy: A propensity score?matched analysis

European Journal of Heart Failure

Abstract Aim Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a cornerstone in the management of chronic heart failure in patients with a broad or paced QRS. The primary composite endpoint included all-cause mortality, heart transplantation, or ventricular assist device implantation. ml/min/1.73 m ml/min/1.73 m 76.5], p  < 0.001).