Effects of Multisite Biventricular Pacing in Patients with Heart Failure and Intraventricular Conduction Delay

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Authors

Serge Cazeau

Christophe Leclercq · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes

Thomas Lavergne · Hôpital Broussais

Stuart Walker · Harefield Hospital

Chetan Varma

Cecilia Linde · Karolinska University Hospital

Stéphane Garrigue · Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque

Lukas Kappenberger

Abstract

Although it is technically complex, atriobiventricular pacing significantly improves exercise tolerance and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure and intraventricular conduction delay.

Topics & Keywords

Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Heart Failure Treatment and Management

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 344, Issue 12, pp. 873-880

DOI: 10.1056/nejm200103223441202

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