Usefulness of rate regulation through continuous ventricular pacing in patients with drug-controlled slower atrial fibrillation and normal or depressed left ventricular systolic function

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 403-408

  Chiladakis, John ^a,b   Koutsogiannis, Nikolaos ^a   Kalogeropoulos, Andreas ^a   Zagli, Fani ^a   Arvanitis, Panagiotis ^a   Alexopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Ventricular function; Ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULSE RATE;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTOLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 57049182514     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-008-1064-7     Document Type: Article

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