Baylor led research awarded $31 Million for Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure

A Baylor College of Medicine multi-institution, collaborative study to determine the effectiveness and safety of commonly used pacing treatments for cardiac resynchronization therapy in people with heart failure has just been awarded a $31 million grant by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

Led by Dr. Mihail G. Chelu, associate professor of medicine – cardiology at Baylor, Dr. Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, professor with Virginia Commonwealth University, and Dr. Richard Holubkov, independent biostatistician with the University of Utah, the study will focus on conduction system pacing for cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with heart failure and conduction system disease.

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