Medtronic Says Benefits of CRT Lasted At Least 5 Years

Medtronic, Inc. MDT today announced findings from a new clinical analysis of the pivotal REVERSE (Resynchronization Reverse Remodeling in Systolic Left Ventricular Dysfunction) trial, which demonstrated that its cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices are associated with low mortality and heart failure hospitalization rates over 5 years, post-implant. This is the first - and longest - study of its kind to show that CRT results in significant structural changes to the heart in patients with mild disease (at 2 years following implant), and also had positive, enduring long-term effects. The 5-year data was presented today at the European Society of Cardiology's ESC Congress 2012 in Munich.