Which patients with congestive heart failure may benefit from biventricular pacing?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages 158-161

  Galizio, Nestor O ^a   Pesce, Ricardo ^a   Valero, Elina ^a   Gonzalez, Jose L ^a   Favaloro, Roberto R ^a   Favaloro, Liliana ^a   Perrone, Sergio ^a   Davila, Pablo ^a   Godoy, Miguel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biventricular pacing; Heart failure; Intraventricular conduction delay; Ventricular resynchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PR INTERVAL; QRS COMPLEX; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0037251174     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00008.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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