Immediate relief of congestive heart failure by ventricular pacing in chronic bradycardia

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Ntalianis, Argirios ^a   Nanas, John N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bradycardia; Congestive heart failure; Ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE;

BRADYCARDIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 33748051750     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.crd.0000181622.22277.b7     Document Type: Article

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