Three years of cardiac resynchronization therapy: Could superior benefits be obtained in patients with heart failure and narrow QRS?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Gasparini, Maurizio ^a   Regoli, François ^a   Galimberti, Paola ^a   Ceriotti, Carlo ^a   Bonadies, Marika ^a   Mangiavacchi, Maurizio ^a   Andreuzzi, Bruno ^a   Bragato, Renato ^a   Pini, Daniela ^a   Klersy, Catherine ^b   Gronda, Edoardo ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Left ventricular dyssynchrony; Narrow QRS complex; Reverse remodeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QRS COMPLEX;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846328746     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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