Patients are living longer with ICDs, but pacing impacts survival rates
Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 04:00
in Health & Medicine
The adverse effect of right ventricular pacing on implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patient survival is sustained long-term; however, the impact appears to be mitigated by cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), based on a scientific poster being presented at the European society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress Aug 28 in Paris.