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Cardiac resynchronisation

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As a result of the ageing population and improved medical care causing people to survivepreviously fatal conditions (eg, myocardial infarction), heart failure occurs more and more ofenin the elderly population. Despite intensive medical therapy, people with heart failure ofenhave a reduced quality of life and poor prognosis €” a large proportion of people die within oneyear of diagnosis. Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) by means of biventricular pacingis a fairly new procedure that improves patient quality of life (based on the Minnesota Livingwith Heart Failure Quality of Life Questionnaire), increases distance walked in six minutes,improves oxygen uptake, lowers New York Heart Association classification, decreases QRSduration, increases left ventricular ejection fraction, and increases peak oxygen consumption.

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