Optimization of the atrioventricular delay in sequential and biventricular pacing: Physiological bases, critical review, and new purposes

Europace

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 929-938

  Antonini, Lanfranco ^a   Auriti, Antonio ^a   Pasceri, Vincenzo ^a   Meo, Antonella ^a   Pristipino, Christian ^a   Varveri, Antonio ^a   Greco, Salvatore ^a   Santini, Massimo ^a  

^a SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

AV delay; Biventricular pacing; Pacing

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHM; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; COMPANION FORMULA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; ISHIKAWA AND MELUZIN FORMULA; ISMER FORMULA; PEAK ENDOCARDIAL ACCELERATION; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RITTER FORMULA; SINUS NODE; SINUS NODE CONDUCTION VELOCITY; WALKING;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84863000896     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eur425     Document Type: Review

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