Long‐Term Results of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Comparison between CRT‐Pacemakers versus Primary Prophylactic CRT‐Defibrillators

Abstract

In CRT treatment outside of the clinical trial setting, CRT-D treatment was not an independent predictor of long-term survival. Future research should focus on correct selection of the patients who receive enough benefit of an added defibrillator to justify CRT-D implantation instead of CRT-P treatment only.