Do the Official Guidelines for CRT Need to be Changed?.- Alternative Techniques for Left Ventricular Lead Placement.- Importance of the Right Ventricular Pacing Site In Cardiac Resynchronization.- Alternative Means of Achieving Cardiac Resynchronization.- CRT-Pacing Only vs. CRT-Defibrillator.- Upgrading Conventional Pacemakers to CRT: Indications and Technical Considerations.- Update of Cardiac Resynchronization Trials.- Cardiac Resynchronization for Heart Failure: Do We Need More Trials?.- Should Cardiac Resynchronization be Considered for the Prevention of Heart Failure?.- Left Bundle Branch Block-Induced Cardiomyopathy: A New Concept of Mechanically-Induced Cardiomyopathy.- Role of Echocardiography before CRT Implantation. Can We Predict Non-Responders?.- Role of Echocardiography after Implantation of a Cardiac Resynchronization System.- Recent Advances in technology of CRT.- Advances in Left Ventricular Pacing Leads.- New Pacing Algorithms and Functions in CRT Devices.- Significance of Latency During Left Ventricular Pacing for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.- Programmability of the Interventricular (V-V) Interval during Cardiac Resynchronization.- Hemodynamic Sensors in Heart Failure Devices.- Assessment of Single Shock Defibrillation Testing of Biventricular ICDs.- How to Program CRT Devices.- Programming and Follow-up of CRT and CRTD Devices.- The Standard Electrocardiogram during Cardiac Resynchronization.- Cardiac Arrhythmias after Cardiac Resynchronization.- Advances in CRT Device Diagnostics.- Complex Issues in the Follow-up of CRT Devices.- Recurrent Heart Failure and Appropriate Evaluation after Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.- Index.
EAN/ISBN : 9780387711676
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Springer US
Discussed keywords: Herzschrittmacher
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Barold, S. Serge - Ritter, Philippe