Significance of electrocardiographic QRS width in patients with congestive heart failure: A marker for biventricular pacing

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 103-109

  Igarashi, Mihoko ^a   Shiina, Yutaka ^a   Tanabe, Teruhisa ^a   Handa, Shunnosuke ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography (QRS width, intraventricular conduction delay); Heart failure (congestive); Pacing (biventricular pacing)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QRS COMPLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036724966     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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