I am in the 10 %...........no wonder I have felt so bad all this time.....

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I have an appt tues to find out what I have to do about this....

Biventricular (bi-v) pacemakers (also called cardiac resynchronization therapy or CRT) or internal cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) are used in patients with heart failure to synchronize the ventricle’s contractions on the heart’s right and left sides and/or to prevent life-threatening arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats) in those at risk. These devices can be inserted by a cardiologist transvenously (through the veins) during a procedure in the electrophysiology lab. For a biventricular pacemaker, two leads are placed into a vein, then guided to the heart’s right atrium and right ventricle. The lead tips are attached to the heart muscle. The other ends of the leads are attached to the pulse generator, which is placed under the skin in the upper chest. The third, left ventricular lead is guided through a vein to the coronary sinus, a small vein on the back of the heart, to pace the left ventricle. The bi-v implant technique is technically challenging and is unsuccessful about 10 percent of the time due to an unfavorable location of the patient's vein.

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