Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) (Biventricular ... | 合法醫療器材資訊網

TheCRTdeviceissometimescalledabiventricularpacemaker.Whyisitdone?CRTisusuallycarriedoutinpeoplewithsevereheartfailuresymptomswhoareat ...

Some people with advanced heart failure experience a delay between the contraction of their right and left ventricles (lower chambers of the heart). In cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), a small electronic apparatus is surgically implanted to help both ventricles contract together. This device is made up of three leads which are attached to the heart muscle at one end (one each to the right atrium, right ventricle and left ventricle) and to a pulse generator at the other. The pulse generator is placed under a pocket of skin created either in the upper chest or the abdomen.

The CRT device is sometimes called a biventricular pacemaker.

CRT is usually carried out in people with severe heart failure symptoms who are at risk of fast, irregular or life-threatening heart rhythms. If your heart does not contract effectively, it will not pump enough...