The pacing therapies for congestive heart failure (PATH-CHF) study: Rationale, design, and endpoints of a prospective randomized multicenter study

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5 B, 1999, Pages

  Auricchio, Angelo ^a   Stellbrink, Christoph ^b   Sack, Stefan ^d   Block, Michael ^c   Vogt, Jürgen ^e   Bakker, Patricia ^f   Mortensen, Peter ^g   Klein, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NITRATE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033545652     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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