Robert B. Leman

TL;DR: For patients with standard indications for ICD therapy, no indication for cardiac pacing, and an LVEF of 40% or less, dual-chamber pacing offers no clinical advantage over ventricular backup pacing and may be detrimental by increasing the combined end point of death or hospitalization for heart failure.

TL;DR: The results indicate that preoperative ventricular function is still an important determinant of outcome of aortic valve replacement for aorta regurgitation, however, current medical and surgical techniques permit a better prognosis in the presence of reduced ventricularfunction than was previously considered possible.

TL;DR: The present study was designed to compare the acute effects of AVD programming methods during CRT and found that the former are more effective than the latter.

TL;DR: The annual rate of appropriate ICD discharges after ASA is low and less than that reported previously for primary prevention of SCD in HCM, which suggests that ASA is not proarrhythmic.

TL;DR: The tricuspid valve was interrogated from two orthogonal views using pulsed-wave and color flow Doppler, either in the presence or absence of a 7-French catheter across the tric Suspid valve.