Adding Defibrillation Therapy to Cardiac Resynchronization on the Basis of the Myocardial Substrate

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BACKGROUND: Patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) may be at lower risk for ventricular arrhythmias compared with those with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). In addition, DCM has been identified as a predictor of positive response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of an additional implantable cardioverter-defibrillator over CRT, according to underlying heart disease, in a large study group of primary prevention patients with heart failure.

METHODS: This was an observational, multicenter, European cohort study of 5,307 consecutive patients with DCM or ICM, no history of sustained ventricular arrhythmias, who underwent CRT implantation with (n = 4,037) or without (n = 1,270) a defibrillator. Propensity-score and cause-of-death analyses were used to compare outcomes.

RESULTS: After a mean follow-up period of 41.4 ± 29.0 months, patients with ICM had better survival when receiving CRT with a defibrillator compared with those who received CRT without a defibrillator (hazard ratio for mortality adjusted on propensity score and all mortality predictors: 0.76; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.62 to 0.92; p = 0.005), whereas in patients with DCM, no such difference was observed (hazard ratio: 0.92; 95% CI: 0.73 to 1.16; p = 0.49). Compared with recipients of defibrillators, the excess mortality in patients who did not receive defibrillators was related to sudden cardiac death in 8.0% among those with ICM but in only 0.4% of those with DCM.

CONCLUSIONS: Among patients with heart failure with indications for CRT, those with DCM may not benefit from additional primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy, as opposed to those with ICM.

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CommentIn: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Apr 4;69(13):1679-1682. - PMID 28359512

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:69

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Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 69(2017), 13 vom: 04. Apr., Seite 1669-1678

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Barra, Sérgio [VerfasserIn]
Boveda, Serge [VerfasserIn]
Providência, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Sadoul, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Duehmke, Rudolf [VerfasserIn]
Reitan, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Borgquist, Rasmus [VerfasserIn]
Narayanan, Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Hidden-Lucet, Françoise [VerfasserIn]
Klug, Didier [VerfasserIn]
Defaye, Pascal [VerfasserIn]
Gras, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Anselme, Frédéric [VerfasserIn]
Leclercq, Christophe [VerfasserIn]
Hermida, Jean-Sébastien [VerfasserIn]
Deharo, Jean-Claude [VerfasserIn]
Looi, Khang-Li [VerfasserIn]
Chow, Anthony W [VerfasserIn]
Virdee, Munmohan [VerfasserIn]
Fynn, Simon [VerfasserIn]
Le Heuzey, Jean-Yves [VerfasserIn]
Marijon, Eloi [VerfasserIn]
Agarwal, Sharad [VerfasserIn]
French-UK-Sweden CRT Network [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

All-cause mortality
Cause of death analysis
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
Ischemic cardiomyopathy
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Observational Study
Sudden cardiac death

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Date Completed 10.07.2017

Date Revised 13.07.2017

published: Print

CommentIn: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Apr 4;69(13):1679-1682. - PMID 28359512

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jacc.2017.01.042

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NLM27047868X