Improvement in Clinical Outcomes with Biventricular Versus Right Ventricular Pacing the BLOCK HF Study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 67, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 2148-2157

  Curtis, Anne B ^a   Worley, Seth J ^b   Chung, Eugene S ^c   Li, Pei ^d   Christman, Shelly A ^d   St John Sutton, Martin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians Geriatrics   (United States)

^c CHRIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Medtronic plc   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

atrioventricular block; biventricular pacing; cardiac resynchronization therapy; heart failure; quality of life

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BAYES THEOREM; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL COMPOSITE SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RIGHT VENTRICULAR PACING; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HEART FAILURE, SYSTOLIC; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, SYSTOLIC; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84966551145     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.02.051     Document Type: Article

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