Varun Sundaram1, Jayakumar Sahadevan2, Albert L Waldo3, George J Stukenborg4, Yogesh N V Reddy5, Samuel J Asirvatham5, Judith A Mackall3, Anselma Intini6, Brigid Wilson6, Daniel I Simon3, Kenneth C Bilchick4. 1. Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom. 2. Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: jxs47@case.edu. 3. Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. 4. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia. 5. Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. 6. Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: More than 20% of Medicare beneficiaries receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-D) have a very wide (≥180 ms) QRS complex duration (QRSD). Outcomes of CRT-D in these patients are not well-established because they have been underrepresented in clinical trials. OBJECTIVES: This study examined outcomes in patients with CRT-D in a very wide QRSD with left bundle branch block (LBBB) versus those without LBBB. METHODS: Medicare patients from the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Registry (January 1, 2005, through April 30, 2006) with a CRT-D and confirmed Class I or IIa indications for CRT-D were matched to implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patients without CRT despite having Class I or IIa indications for CRT. Mortality and heart failure hospitalizations longer than 4 years with CRT-D versus standard ICDs based on a QRSD and morphology were analyzed. RESULTS: We analyzed 24,960 patients. Among those with LBBB, patients with a QRSD ≥180 ms had a greater adjusted survival benefit with CRT-D versus standard ICD (hazard ration [HR] for death: 0.65; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.59 to 0.72) compared with those having a QRSD 120 to 149 ms (HR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.80 to 0.92) and 150 to 179 ms (HR: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.81 to 0.93). CRT-D versus ICD was associated with an improvement in survival in those with LBBB and a QRSD ≥180 ms (adjusted HR for death: 0.78; 95% CI: 0.68 to 0.91), but not in those with LBBB and a QRSD 150 to 179 ms (adjusted HR for death: 1.06; 95% CI: 0.95 to 1.19). CONCLUSIONS: Improvements in both survival and heart failure hospitalizations with CRT-D were greatest in patients with a QRSD ≥180 ms with or without LBBB, whereas patients with a QRSD 150 to 179 ms without LBBB had no improvement in survival with CRT-D, and those with a QRSD 150 to 179 ms and LBBB had only a modest improvement. Published by Elsevier Inc.
BACKGROUND: More than 20% of Medicare beneficiaries receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-D) have a very wide (≥180 ms) QRS complex duration (QRSD). Outcomes of CRT-D in these patients are not well-established because they have been underrepresented in clinical trials. OBJECTIVES: This study examined outcomes in patients with CRT-D in a very wide QRSD with left bundle branch block (LBBB) versus those without LBBB. METHODS: Medicare patients from the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Registry (January 1, 2005, through April 30, 2006) with a CRT-D and confirmed Class I or IIa indications for CRT-D were matched to implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patients without CRT despite having Class I or IIa indications for CRT. Mortality and heart failure hospitalizations longer than 4 years with CRT-D versus standard ICDs based on a QRSD and morphology were analyzed. RESULTS: We analyzed 24,960 patients. Among those with LBBB, patients with a QRSD ≥180 ms had a greater adjusted survival benefit with CRT-D versus standard ICD (hazard ration [HR] for death: 0.65; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.59 to 0.72) compared with those having a QRSD 120 to 149 ms (HR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.80 to 0.92) and 150 to 179 ms (HR: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.81 to 0.93). CRT-D versus ICD was associated with an improvement in survival in those with LBBB and a QRSD ≥180 ms (adjusted HR for death: 0.78; 95% CI: 0.68 to 0.91), but not in those with LBBB and a QRSD 150 to 179 ms (adjusted HR for death: 1.06; 95% CI: 0.95 to 1.19). CONCLUSIONS: Improvements in both survival and heart failure hospitalizations with CRT-D were greatest in patients with a QRSD ≥180 ms with or without LBBB, whereas patients with a QRSD 150 to 179 ms without LBBB had no improvement in survival with CRT-D, and those with a QRSD 150 to 179 ms and LBBB had only a modest improvement. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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