Survival with cardiac-resynchronization therapy in mild heart failure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 1694-1701

  Goldenberg, Ilan ^a,b,c,d   Kutyifa, Valentina ^a   Klein, Helmut U ^a   Cannom, David S ^f   Brown, Mary W ^a   Dan, Ariela ^b   Daubert, James P ^g   Estes III, N A Mark ^h   Foster, Elyse ^j   Greenberg, Henry ^k   Kautzner, Josef ^l   Klempfner, Robert ^b,c   Kuniss, Malte ^m   Merkely, Bela ^o   Pfeffer, Marc A ⁱ   Quesada, Aurelio ^p   Viskin, Sami ^d,e   McNitt, Scott ^a   Polonsky, Bronislava ^a   Ghanem, Ali ⁿ   Solomon, Scott D ^a,i   Wilber, David ^q   Zareba, Wojciech ^a   Moss, Arthur J ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Israeli Association for Cardiovascular Trials   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^l INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^m KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^o SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^p HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^q LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84899753770     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1401426     Document Type: Article

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