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Podcast: The Lead Podcast presented by Heart Rhythm Society
Episode: The Lead Podcast - Episode 53
Description: William H. Sauer, MD, FHRS, CCDS, of Brigham and Women's Hospital is joined by guests Akshay Suvas Desai, MD, MPH of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Sunil Kapur, MD of Brigham and Women`s Hospital to discuss how the Resynchronization–Defibrillation for Ambulatory Heart Failure Trial (RAFT) showed a greater benefit with respect to mortality at 5 years among patients who received cardiac-resynchronization therapy (CRT) than among those who received implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs). However, the effect of CRT on long-term survival is not known. We randomly assigned patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II or III heart fail...