Surgically placed left ventricular leads provide similar outcomes to percutaneous leads in patients with failed coronary sinus lead placement

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 619-625

  Ailawadi, Gorav ^a   LaPar, Damien J ^a   Swenson, Brian R ^a   Maxwell, Cory D ^a   Girotti, Micah E ^a   Bergin, James D ^a   Kern, John A ^a   DiMarco, John P ^a   Mahapatra, Srijoy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization; Complications; Heart Failure; Pacing; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICE; CARDIOVERSION; CORONARY SINUS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TUBE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRODE; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE; INFECTION; INNERVATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIRGINIA;

EID: 78650678698     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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