Upgrading from right ventricular pacing to biventricular pacing in pacemaker patients with chronic heart failure

Heart

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-107

  Leclercq, Christophe ^a  

^a PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFIBRILLATOR; HAZARD RATIO; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; RISK; STARLING LAW;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 37749022155     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.065094     Document Type: Review

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