Journal of Clinical Pediatrics ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (4): 367-372.doi: 10.12372/jcp.2024.22e1661

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Cardiac resynchronization therapy in children with heart failure

Reviewer: CHEN Ruoyu, Reviser: LYU Tiewei()   

  1. Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Chongqing Medical University, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Child Development and Critical Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, China
  • Received:2022-12-13 Online:2024-04-15 Published:2024-04-09

Abstract:

As an important non-drug treatment for heart failure in adults, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is gaining more and more interest and application in pediatric heart failure, and it has been preliminarily proved to be effective in heart failure due to some etiologies. This article reviews the application, efficacy, implantation forms and adverse reactions of CRT in children with heart failure caused by different causes such as congenital heart disease and pace-induced cardiomyopathy in recent years, and looks forward to the further development of CRT, in order to provide reference for timely application of CRT in children with heart failure.

Key words: heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy, child