Stuy in NEJM: New therapy prevents heart failure

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 13:21 in Health & Medicine

Patients who had a cardiac resynchronization device combined with a defibrillator (CRT-D) implanted had a 34 percent reduction in their risk of death or heart failure when compared to patients receiving only an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD), according to a landmark study published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented today at the European Society of C