Improvement of congestive heart failure by upgrading of conventional to resynchronization pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 880-884

  Marai, Ibrahim ^b   Gurevitz, Osnat ^b   Carasso, Shemy ^b   Nof, Eyal ^b   Bar Lev, David ^b   Luria, David ^b   Arbel, Yaron ^b   Freimark, Dov ^b   Feinberg, Micha S ^b   Eldar, Michael ^b   Glikson, Michael ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization; Heart failure; Right ventricular apical pacemaker upgrading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QRS COMPLEX; RIGHT VENTRICULAR APICAL PACING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WALKING;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747117580     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00455.x     Document Type: Article

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