The effect of intermittent atrial tachyarrhythmia on heart failure or death in cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator versus implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients: a MADIT-CRT substudy (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy).

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Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on December 11, 2013

Authors

Anne-Christine Ruwald1, Grzegorz Pietrasik2, Ilan Goldenberg3, Valentina Kutyifa4, James P Daubert5, Martin H Ruwald6, Christian Jons7, Scott McNitt8, Paul Wang9, Wojciech Zareba8, Arthur J Moss8

Author Affiliations

1: University of Rochester Medical Center, Heart Research Follow-Up Program, Rochester, New York; Department of Cardiology, Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark. Electronic address: anne.ruwald@heart.rochester.edu.
2: Division of Cardiology, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
3: University of Rochester Medical Center, Heart Research Follow-Up Program, Rochester, New York; Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
4: University of Rochester Medical Center, Heart Research Follow-Up Program, Rochester, New York; Semmelweis University Heart Center, Budapest, Hungary.
5: Cardiology Division, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
6: University of Rochester Medical Center, Heart Research Follow-Up Program, Rochester, New York; Department of Cardiology, Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark.
7: Department of Cardiology, Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark.
8: University of Rochester Medical Center, Heart Research Follow-Up Program, Rochester, New York.
9: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Associated clinical trials:

MADIT-CRT: Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT) | NCT00180271