Perioperative biventricular pacing leads to improvement of hemodynamics in patients with reduced left-ventricular function - Interim results

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1341-1345

  Dzemali, Omer ^a,b   Bakhtiary, Farhad ^a   Dogan, Selami ^a   Wittlinger, Thomas ^a   Moritz, Anton ^a   Kleine, Peter ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biventricular pacing; Heart failure; Left ventricular failure; Open heart surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QRS COMPLEX; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33845666940     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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