Initial single-center experience of a quadripolar pacing lead for cardiac resynchronization therapy

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 484-489

  Shetty, Anoop K ^a,b   Duckett, Simon G ^a,b   Bostock, Julian ^a   Roy, Debashis ^a   Ginks, Matthew ^a,b   Hamid, Shoaib ^a   Rosenthal, Eric ^a   Razavi, Reza ^b   Rinaldi, Christopher Aldo ^a,b  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; CRT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PNEUMOTHORAX; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS RHYTHM; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953784390     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.03003.x     Document Type: Article

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