Biventricular Pacing in End-Stage Heart Failure Improves Functional Capacity and Left Ventricular Function
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Vol. 4 (2) , 395-404
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009854417694
Abstract
Background Asynchronous patterns of contraction and relaxation may contribute to hemodynamic and functional impairment in heart failure. In 1993, we introduced biventricular pacing as a novel method...Keywords
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