[CRT-FORUM] 45E 4-year-old girl with dilated cardiomyopathy. Dr. Raed Abu Sham'a

[CRT-INFO]

Dear Colleagues and teachers

Dearest Prof Pérez Riera and Prof Levine

Greetings

CRT represent a state-of-art therapy for patients with advanced heart
failure maintained on optimal medical therapy and have electrocardiographic
evidence of dyssynchrony. This therapy sometimes complicated by rapid
clinical deterioration which may lead to SCD, frequent hospitalization,
decreased in NYHA functional class or worsening of quality of life score.
These patients are considered as non-responders, but the reality that 
these patient are "worse than non-responders" as they deteriorated.
Do we have any predictors for this group of patients which may help in
avoiding implantation of such patients? This may help in decreasing the
percentage of non-responders.

Warm Regards

Raed Abu Sham'a, MD
Palestine


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President of Scientific Committee

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