«Cardiac resychronization» in heart failure: Well-established therapy or new approach with unanswered questions?;«Resincronización ventricular» en la insuficiencia cardíaca: ¿Un método bien establecido o una línea de progreso con muchos interrogantes?

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 637-641

  Alberca, M Teresa ^a   García Cosío, Francisco ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biventricular pacing; Cardiac resynchronization; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; TREATMENT INDICATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0043123096     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13049642     Document Type: Editorial

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