Biventricular pacing reduces ventricular arrhythmic burden and defibrillator therapies in patients with heart failure

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 74-77

  Voigt, Andrew ^a   Barrington, William ^a   Ngwu, Ogundu ^a   Jain, Sandeep ^a   Saba, Samir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biventricular pacing; Supraventricular tachycardia; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOFETILIDE; SOTALOL; SPIRONOLACTONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 32544461009     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960290208     Document Type: Article

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