Interventricular and infra-left ventricular electromechanical delays in right ventricular paced patients with heart failure: Implications for upgrading to biventricular stimulation

Heart

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1401-1405

  Bordachar, P ^b   Garrigue, S ^a,b   Lafitte, S ^b   Reuter, S ^b   Jais P ^b   Haissaguerre M ^b   Clementy, J ^b  

^a Hop Cardiologique du Haut Leveque   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QRS COMPLEX; RANDOMIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PACING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0344394422     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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