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Does cardiac resynchronization therapy reduce the long-term mortality risk in patients with heart failure?

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boxed-textCleland JG et al. (2006) Longer-term effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on mortality in heart failure [the CArdiac REsynchronization-Heart Failure (CARE-HF) trial extension phase]. Eur Heart J 27: 1928–1932

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