Systematic Review: Cardiac Resynchronization in Patients with Symptomatic Heart Failure
![Figure 4. 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.](F4.medium.gif)
Figure 4. 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.
Changes in quality of life with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) versus controls (based on the Minnesota Living with
Heart Failure [MLWHF] Questionnaire).
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Published Ahead of Print
July 12, 2004,
Ann Intern Med
September 7, 2004
vol. 141
no. 5
381-390