Resynchronization Therapy Compromised By ICD Backup, Saxon Tells NASPE

Resynchronization therapy with an implantable defibrillator backup undermines the salutary effect of bi-ventricular pacing for congestive heart failure, according to Leslie Saxon, MD, University of California at San Francisco.[Editors' note: Please see the attached June 6 letter to "The Gray Sheet" from Saxon commenting on the context of her presentation at NASPE. The presentation, Saxon says, should not have been reported literally.]