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Cardiac resynchronization therapy combined with coronary artery bypass grafting in ischaemic heart failure patients: long-term results of the RESCUE study

Friday, June 24, 2016

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Source

Source Name: Eur J Cardiothorac Surg

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/1/36.abstract

Author(s)

Alexander Romanov, Kinga Goscinska-Bis, Jaroslaw Bis, Alexander Chernyavskiy, Darya Prokhorova, Yana Syrtseva, Vitaliy Shabanov, Sergey Alsov, Alexander Karaskov, Marek Deja, Michal Krejca, and Evgeny Pokushalov

The RESCUE study recruited 178 patients with heart failure and systolic dyssynchrony. Patients were randomized to CABG alone or to CABG with concomitant epicardial CRT implantation. Results for long-term survival (55 ± 10.7 months) were in favor of the CABG+RCT group.