2010 Focused Update of ESC Guidelines on device therapy in heart failure: An update of the 2008 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure and the 2007 ESC guidelines for cardiac and resynchronization therapy Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association and the European Heart Rhythm Association

Resumption of sinus rhythm in patients with heart failure and permanent atrial fibrillation undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy: a longitudinal observational study

(2010) M. Gasparini et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Patient selection for left ventricular assist devices

(2010) Lars H. Lund et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Effects of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in patients with heart failure having a narrow QRS Complex enrolled in PROSPECT

(2010) R. J. van Bommel et al.   HEART

Extending the Boundaries of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Efficacy in Atrial Fibrillation, New York Heart Association Class II, and Narrow QRS Heart Failure Patients

(2010) Sara Wein et al.   JOURNAL OF CARDIAC FAILURE

Long-Term Effects of Upgrading to Biventricular Pacing: Differences with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy as Primary Indication

(2010) GAETANO PAPARELLA et al.   PACE-PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Effect of Long-Term Resynchronization Therapy on Left Ventricular Remodeling in Pacemaker Patients Upgraded to Biventricular Devices

(2009) Mehmet Akif Vatankulu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Beneficial effects of biventricular pacing in chronically right ventricular paced patients with mild cardiomyopathy

(2009) I. E. van Geldorp et al.   EUROPACE

Prevalence and risk factors related to infections of cardiac resynchronization therapy devices

(2009) C. Romeyer-Bouchard et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

The European cardiac resynchronization therapy survey

(2009) K. Dickstein et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Surface electrocardiogram to predict outcome in candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy: a sub-analysis of the CARE-HF trial

(2009) Renaud Gervais et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Implementation of device therapy (cardiac resynchronization therapy and implantable cardioverter defibrillator) for patients with heart failure in Europe: changes from 2004 to 2008

(2009) Dirk J. van Veldhuisen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Second INTERMACS annual report: More than 1,000 primary left ventricular assist device implants

(2009) James K. Kirklin et al.   JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION

Prevention of Disease Progression by Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients With Asymptomatic or Mildly Symptomatic Left Ventricular Dysfunction

(2009) Claude Daubert et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Extended Mechanical Circulatory Support With a Continuous-Flow Rotary Left Ventricular Assist Device

(2009) Francis D. Pagani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Heart Failure Decompensation and All-Cause Mortality in Relation to Percent Biventricular Pacing in Patients With Heart Failure

(2009) Bruce A. Koplan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Biventricular Pacing in Patients with Bradycardia and Normal Ejection Fraction

(2009) Cheuk-Man Yu et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Advanced Heart Failure Treated with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device

(2009) Mark S. Slaughter et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy for the Prevention of Heart-Failure Events

(2009) Arthur J. Moss et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Resynchronization/defibrillation for ambulatory heart failure trial: rationale and trial design

(2008) Anthony S Tang et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CARDIOLOGY

Benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy in atrial fibrillation patients vs. patients in sinus rhythm: the role of atrioventricular junction ablation

(2008) A. M. Ferreira et al.   EUROPACE

Long-term survival in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy: the importance of performing atrio-ventricular junction ablation in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation

(2008) M. Gasparini et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2008 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA) and endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

(2008) et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Long-term effects of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation

(2008) K Khadjooi et al.   HEART

Cardiac Resynchronization in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

(2008) Gaurav A. Upadhyay et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Randomized Trial of Cardiac Resynchronization in Mildly Symptomatic Heart Failure Patients and in Asymptomatic Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Previous Heart Failure Symptoms

(2008) Cecilia Linde et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY