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UK updates HF guidelines: NICE, but are they enough?

Besides preventing clinical adverse events, cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D) also improves health status in patients with mild congestive heart failure (CHF), according to a small, multicenter study. One year after CRT-D Patients with persistent symptoms should receive additional drug therapy, CRT or an ICD, but only after careful consideration. “Heart failure is a [...]