Short and long-term single-centre experience with an S-shaped unipolar lead for left ventricular pacing

Europace

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-211

  Fatemi, M ^a   Etienne, Y ^a   Gilard, M ^a   Mansourati, J ^a   Blanc, J J ^a  

^a SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Lead implantation; Left ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; IMPLANTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0037378641     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/eupc.2002.0288     Document Type: Article

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