Mechanical dyssynchrony—resurrected as a flashing and rocking parameter to predict prognosis after cardiac resynchronization therapy

Clinicians want to implant those patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) who can benefit from it in terms of quality of life, symptoms, and survival. Still, selection of these patients is not straight forward. We are continuously trying to improve the treatment by looking for new techniques, new parameters, new indices, to select the correct patients, to select the correct lead position and pacing site(s), to select the correct device programming and to select the correct response parameters. Among a myriad of response parameters to CRT, the reduction of end-systolic volume (ESV) is widely in use and has been used in several trials.^1,2

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