Cardiovascular

Better Criteria For Cardiac Resynchronisation Needed in Heart Failure: PROSPECT Trial Results

September 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment
Stefano Ghio
Stefano Ghio
Cecilia Linde
Cecilia Linde

REFERENCE: Hotline III, 3222 page 315, European Society of Cardiology Congress, 2007, 1-5 September, Vienna, Austria
STEFANO GHIO, San Matteo University Hospital, Italy
COMMENT: CECILIA LINDE, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
The standard echocardiographic criteria for selecting patients to receive cardiac resynchronisation are not adequate according to Stefano Ghio. During the ESC Congress in Vienna he presented results from the PROSPECT trial and afterwards he talked with Sarah Maxwell. Cecilia Linde gave Nicola Solomon her comments on the findings.

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