Long-term effects of upgrading from right ventricular pacing to cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with heart failure

Europace

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 495-501

  Foley, Paul W X ^a   Muhyaldeen, Sahrkaur A ^a   Chalil, Shajil ^a   Smith, Russell E A ^a   Sanderson, John E ^a   Leyva, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Heart failure; Pacing

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; WALKING;

EID: 65249154061     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup037     Document Type: Article

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