How many patients who receive CRT experience an improvement in their LVEF?

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Written By Lakshmi Tummala

I was wondering how many patients who receive CRT experience an improvement in their LVEF, and as best I can tell, in properly selected patients, it's somewhere between 50 and 80%. That is higher than I realized. For your further reading, I'm attaching the two good and quick review articles I just read: one on CRT super-responders, and one on non-responders. Enjoy!

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Prinzen FW, Auricchio A, Mullens W, Linde C, Huizar JF. Electrical management of heart failure: from pathophysiology to treatment. European Heart Journal. 2022;43(20):1917-1927. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac088

‌Card Electrophysiol Clin 7 (2015) 781–788

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Lakshmi Tummala
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