Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Role of patient selection

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 336-342

  Bank, Alan J ^a   Kelly, Aaron S ^b   Burns, Kevin V ^b   Adler, Stuart W ^b  

^a St Paul Heart Clinic   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART PACING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATIENT SELECTION; QRS COMPLEX; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT FAILURE; WALKING;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33749022744     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-006-0072-4     Document Type: Review

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