Systematic Review: Cardiac Resynchronization in Patients with Symptomatic Heart Failure
![Figure 2. CHF = congestive heart failure; COMPANION = Comparison of Medical Therapy, Pacing, and Defibrillation in Chronic Heart Failure; CONTAK CD = Guidant CONTAK CD CRT-D System Trial; MIRACLE = Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation; MIRACLE-ICD = Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation ICD [implantable cardioverter-defibrillator]; MUSTIC-AF = Multisite Stimulation in Cardiomyopathies Atrial Fibrillation; MUSTIC-SR = Multisite Stimulation in Cardiomyopathies Sinus Rhythm; PATH-CHF = Pacing Therapies for Congestive Heart Failure; RR = relative risk.](F2.medium.gif)
Figure 2. CHF = congestive heart failure; COMPANION = Comparison of Medical Therapy, Pacing, and Defibrillation in Chronic
Heart Failure; CONTAK CD = Guidant CONTAK CD CRT-D System Trial; MIRACLE = Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation;
MIRACLE-ICD = Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation ICD [implantable cardioverter-defibrillator]; MUSTIC-AF =
Multisite Stimulation in Cardiomyopathies Atrial Fibrillation; MUSTIC-SR = Multisite Stimulation in Cardiomyopathies Sinus
Rhythm; PATH-CHF = Pacing Therapies for Congestive Heart Failure; RR = relative risk.
All-cause mortality with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) versus controls.
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Published online before print
July 12, 2004,
Ann Intern Med
September 7, 2004
vol. 141
no. 5
381-390