Patients with heart failure often have intraventricular conduction delays (such as bundle branch blocks), which cause the ventricles to contract dyssynchronously, in an inefficient manner. This is the rationale behind the implantation of biventricular pacing devices to restore synchrony. The effect of cardiac resynchronization on morbidity and mortality in heart failure, in this week’s NEJM, …
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