Upgrade to biventricular pacing in patients with conventional pacemakers and heart failure: A double-blind, randomized crossover study

Europace

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-55

  Höijer, Carl Johan ^a   Meurling, Carl ^a   Brandt, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biventricular pacing; Cardiac function; Heart failure; Upgrade

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART PACING; HEART RHYTHM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINUS NODE DISEASE; SYMPTOM; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; BLOOD; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EXERCISE TEST; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745288148     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euj014     Document Type: Article

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