PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jacobson, Anne
ED  - Ellenbogen, Kenneth A.
TI  - SMART-AV: No Benefit to Customized AV Delay in CRT
DP  - 2010  01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 17--17
VI  - 10
IP  - 10
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/10/10/17.1.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/10/10/17.1.full
AB  - For heart failure patients who are undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy, echocardiographic- or ECG-based optimized AV delay does not improve upon standard programming approaches, according to new findings from the SmartDelay Determined AV Optimization: A Comparison to Other AV Delay Methods Used in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy [SMART-AV] trial.