Usefulness of biventricular pacing to improve cardiac symptoms, exercise capacity and sympathetic nerve activity in patients with moderate to severe chronic heart failure

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 703-709

  Higuchi, Kyosuke ^a,c   Toyama, Takuji ^b   Tada, Hiroshi ^b   Naito, Shigeto ^b   Ohshima, Sigeru ^b   Kurabayashi, Masahiko ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Gunma Pref Cardiovascular Center   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

123I MIBG imaging; 99mTc MIBI imaging; Biventricular pacing; Cardiac sympathetic nerve activity; Dyssynchrony index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVALUATION STUDIES; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33744475098     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.703     Document Type: Article

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