Resynchronization therapy in patients with refractory heart failure and myocardial ischemia: long term follow-up
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Abstract
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) can be applied in patients with impaired left ventricular (LV) function and advanced heart failure if a reversible cause of a depressed LV function is excluded. We studied 23 patients with an ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure class III-IV NYHA and QRS duration > 120 msec who were rejected for surgical and percutaneous interventions. In 14 patients revascularisation was not amenable for technical reasons, 7 had extensive co-morbidity and 2 refused a (repeated) surgical intervention. All had documented myocardial ischemia on nuclear or echocardiographic stress studies. In all successful implantation was performed and follow-up was 13±1.9 months. Nine patients had two-vessel disease and 14 patients had three-vessel disease on coronary angiography. Seven patients had previous myocardial infarction. Mean LV ejection fraction was 23±4 %. During follow-up 4 patients died: 3 patients had sudden death while 1 patient died 2 days after (recurrent) myocardial infarction. In the remaining group functional class improved from 3.2±1.4 to 2.0±1.0, p< 0.01. Quality-of-life assessed by the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire improved from 39±15 to 28±13, p< 0.01. The 6-minutes walking test increased from 264±104 to 385±121(m), p<0.01). Despite an improvement in exercise capacity anginal attacks/week remained the same (2.3±0.7 to 2.2±0.6, p=ns). In patients with advanced heart failure, stable angina and documented myocardial ischemia CRT can be performed safely with good long term follow-up.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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