Heart failure and cardiac resynchronization therapies: U.S. experience in the year 2000

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 188-194

  Saxon, Leslie A ^a,c   Kumar, Uday N ^b   De Marco, Teresa ^a  

^a Cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmia Research and Education (CARE) Center   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Heart failure; ICD

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034084378     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2000.tb00385.x     Document Type: Article

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