Better Criteria For Cardiac Resynchronisation Needed in Heart Failure: PROSPECT Trial Results

Better Criteria For Cardiac Resynchronisation Needed in Heart Failure: PROSPECT Trial Results

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5 September 2007

Stefano Ghio

Stefano Ghio

Cecilia Linde

Cecilia Linde

REFERENCE: Hotline III, 3222 page 315, European Society of Cardiology Congress, 2007, 1-5 September, Vienna, AustriaSTEFANO GHIO, San Matteo University Hospital, ItalyCOMMENT: CECILIA LINDE, Karolinska University Hospital, StockholmThe standard echocardiographic criteria for selecting patients to receive cardiac resynchronisation are not adequate according toStefano Ghio. During the ESC Congress in Vienna he presented results from the PROSPECT trial and afterwards he talked with Sarah Maxwell.Cecilia Lindegave Nicola Solomon her comments on the findings.