Implementing cardiac resynchronization therapy in routine clinical practice: Preoperative considerations and implantation techniques

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-37

  Nägele, Herbert ^a   Castel, Maria Angeles ^b  

^a St Adolfstift Medical Clinic   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Congestive heart failure; Coronary sinus leads; Left ventricular leads

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; AMIODARONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; LEAD; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PROPOFOL;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CANNULATION; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY SINUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEPRESSION; DISSECTION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM; FATIGUE; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PROARRHYTHMIA; HEART STIMULATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PERICARDIUM; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHRENIC NERVE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULSE OXIMETRY; QRS COMPLEX; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SHEATH REMOVAL; SINUS ARREST; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SUDDEN DEATH; THORACOTOMY; TORSADE DES POINTES; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN PUNCTURE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY SINUS; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 66149086162     PISSN: 15306550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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