Optimised rate-responsive pacing does not improve either right ventricular haemodynamics or exercise capacity in adults with a systemic right ventricle

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 485-494

  Uebing, Anselm ^a,b   Diller, Gerhard Paul ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Maskell, Mark ^a   Dimopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Gatzoulis, Michael A ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronotropic incompetence; exercise physiology; pacemaker therapy; systemic right ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMIC RIGHT VENTRICLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649918670     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951110000454     Document Type: Article

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