2012 EHRA/HRS expert consensus statement on cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure: Implant and follow-up recommendations and management

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1524-1576

  Daubert, Jean Claude ^a   Saxon, Leslie ^a   Adamson, Philip B ^a   Auricchio, Angelo ^a   Berger, Ronald D ^a   Beshai, John F ^a   Breithard, Ole ^a   Brignole, Michele ^a   Cleland, John ^a   Delurgio, David B ^a   Dickstein, Kenneth ^a   Exner, Derek V ^a   Gold, Michael ^a   Grimm, Richard A ^a   Hayes, David L ^a   Israel, Carsten ^a   Leclercq, Christophe ^a   Linde, Cecilia ^a   Lindenfeld, Joann ^a   Merkely, Bela ^a   Mont, Lluis ^a   Murgatroyd, Francis ^a   Prinzen, Frits ^a   Saba, Samir F ^a   Shinbane, Jerold S ^a   Singh, Jagmeet ^a   Tang, Anthony S ^a   Vardas, Panos E ^a   Wilkoff, Bruce L ^a   Zamorano, Jose Luis ^a   more..

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Consensus recommendations; CRT; Follow up; Non responder

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CANNULATION; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CEPHALIC VEIN; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CORONARY STENT; CORONARY VEIN; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODE; EXERCISE TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PACING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART STIMULATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); P WAVE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHRENIC NERVE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PR INTERVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; PULSE PRESSURE; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STENT THROMBOSIS; STIMULATION; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 84865632707     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.07.025     Document Type: Article

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