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How do you identify the subset of heart failure patients who are likely to benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy in the setting of an RBBB pattern?

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There are no good criteria to delineate which patients with RBBB will benefit from traditional CRT. The best contemporary strategy is to consider CRT if a patient has an RBBB > 150 ms, an atypical morphology (suggesting an underlying delay in the LBBB or an IVCD), and Class III-IV HF symptoms. One m...

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