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Introduction: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduces hospitalizations and mortality in patients with advanced heart failure and prolonged QRS duration. In patients with a narrow QRS complex, CRT has failed to reduce the rate of death or hospitalization. Thus, there is an alternative device-based treatment for patients with persistent symptoms…

Introduction: Despite strong advances in diagnostic and treatment, heart failure (HF) remains the single largest cause of mortality in the western world.Cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) is a relatively new electrical device-based technique proposed for enhancing ventricular contractile strength of the failing myocardium independent of the synchrony of myocardial contraction….