Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation therapy

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9792, 2011, Pages 722-730

  Holzmeister, Johannes ^a   Leclercq, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MECHANICAL DYSSYCHRONY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUDDEN DEATH; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VENTRICULAR DYSSYNCHRONY;

EID: 80052015101     PISSN: 0140-6736     EISSN: 1474-547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61228-2     Document Type: Review

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