Biventricular pacing decreases sympathetic activity compared with right ventricular pacing in patients with depressed ejection fraction

Circulation

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1027-1032

  Hamdan, Mohamed H ^a,c   Zagrodzky, Jason D ^a   Joglar, Jose A ^a   Sheehan, Clifford J ^a   Ramaswamy, Karthik ^a   Erdner, Jeffrey F ^b   Page, Richard L ^a   Smith, Michael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c VA NORTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Heart failure; Nervous system; Pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034730071     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.102.9.1027     Document Type: Article

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