Association between frequency of atrial and ventricular ectopic beats and biventricular pacing percentage and outcomes in patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy.

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Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on September 09, 2014

Authors

Martin H Ruwald1, Suneet Mittal2, Anne-Christine Ruwald3, Mehmet K Aktas4, James P Daubert5, Scott McNitt4, Amin Al-Ahmad6, Christian Jons7, Valentina Kutyifa4, Jonathan S Steinberg2, Paul Wang8, Arthur J Moss4, Wojciech Zareba4

Author Affiliations

1: Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York; Department of Cardiology, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark. Electronic address: mruwald@hotmail.com.
2: Arrhythmia Institute, Valley Health System of New York and New Jersey, New York, New York and Ridgewood, New Jersey.
3: Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York; Department of Cardiology, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark.
4: Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.
5: Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
6: Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, Texas.
7: Department of Cardiology, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark.
8: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Associated clinical trials:

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