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How would you choose between left bundle pacing and CRT-P in a patient with a new high-degree AV block and pre-existing reduced LVEF, who does not otherwise meet the criteria for CRT-D?

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Cardiology · Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital

This is a unique population described in the 2018 ACC AHA HRS Bradycardia guidelines - defined as LVEF 35-50% with >40% pacing, essentially what's left when you subtract the 2013 NEJM BLOCK HF trial = LVEF <50% minus all the SCD-HeFT LVEF <35% on GDMT and a small population of MUSTT LVEF <40% induci...

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