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Prevalence of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy without back-up ICD: a single-center experience

Miriam Bortnik, Anna Degiovanni, Gabriele Dell'era, Chiara Cavallino, Eraldo Occhetta, Paolo Marino
Current guidelines recommend cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in selected heart failure patients, but do not precisely clarify when a back-up implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) should be associated (CRT-D). In this study we evaluate the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias in a population of patients implanted with biventricular pacemaker without a back-up ICD (CRT-P)
Article, 2014