Heart Failure and CRT

Heart failure is a dysfunction in the pumping action of the heart due to the heart's inability to contract or relax properly.

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is a heart failure treatment that provides an electrical solution to the symptoms and other difficulties brought on by certain types of heart failure. CRT is administered via a biventricular pacemaker, called a CRT-P, or an ICD that has a built-in biventricular pacemaker, called a CRT-D device.

Biventricular pacing improves the efficiency of each contraction of the heart and the amount of blood pumped to the body and this helps to lessen the symptoms of heart failure and, in many cases, helps to stop, or even reverse the progression of the disease.