Clinical predictors and timing of New York Heart Association class improvement with cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with advanced chronic heart failure: Results from the Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE) and Multicenter InSync ICD Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE-ICD) trials

American Heart Journal

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 837-843

  Pires, Luis A ^a,b   Abraham, William T ^c   Young, James B ^d   Johnson, Katrina M ^a,b  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33645211727     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2005.06.024     Document Type: Article

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