Urgent cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with decompensated chronic heart failure receiving inotropic therapy: A case series

Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-62

  Konstantino, Yuval ^a   Iakobishvili, Zaza ^a   Arad, Orna ^a   Ben Gal, Tuvia ^a   Kusniec, Jairo ^a   Mazur, Alexander ^a   Porter, Avital ^a   Strasberg, Boris ^a   Battler, Alexander ^a   Hasdai, David ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Death; Heart failure; Inotropic treatment

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOBUTAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; INOTROPIC AGENT; LEVOSIMENDAN; NESIRITIDE; NORADRENALIN; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INOTROPISM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33745685596     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092616     Document Type: Article

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