Biventricular pacing dramatically improved critical heart failure in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: Two case reports

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 241-248

  Shimeno, Kenji ^a   Otsuka, Masato ^a   Nagashima, Michitaka ^a   Ashida, Kinya ^a   Abe, Yukio ^a   Komatsu, Ryushi ^a   Sakanoue, Yuji ^a   Naruko, Takahiko ^a   Itoh, Akira ^a   Shoda, Morio ^b   Haze, Kazuo ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacing, artificial; Cardiomyopathy, dilated; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DIURETIC AGENT; DOPAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0038507471     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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