Loss of Left Bundle Branch Block following Biventricular Pacing Therapy for Heart Failure: Evidence for Electrical Remodeling?

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-50

  Dizon, Jose' ^a,c   Horn, Evelyn ^a   Neglia, John ^b   Medina, Norma ^a   Garan, Hasan ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biventricular pacing; Left bundle branch block

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; LISINOPRIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; QRS COMPLEX; REOPERATION;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 1542350213     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JICE.0000011484.61659.b1     Document Type: Article

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