Cardiac resynchronization therapy combined with coronary artery bypass grafting in ischaemic heart failure patients: long-term results of the RESCUE study

The RESCUE study recruited 178 patients with heart failure and systolic dyssynchrony. Patients were randomized to CABG alone or to CABG with concomitant epicardial CRT implantation. Results for long-term survival (55 ± 10.7 months) were in favor of the CABG+RCT group.