An 8-year single-centre experience of cardiac resynchronisation therapy: Procedural success, early and late complications, and left ventricular lead performance

Europace

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 711-717

  Ahsan, Syed Y ^a   Saberwal, Bunny ^a   Lambiase, Pier D ^a   Chaubey, Sanjay ^b   Segal, Oliver R ^a   Gopalamurugan, Aerokondal B ^a   McCready, James ^a   Rogers, Dominic P ^a,c   Lowe, Martin D ^a   Chow, Anthony W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy; Complications; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICES; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COMORBIDITY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877248810     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eus401     Document Type: Article

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