Ventricular resynchronization through biventricular cardiac pacing for the treatment of refractory heart failure in dilated cardiomyopathy

OBJECTIVE: The biventricular pacing (BVP) approach has good results in the treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF) in patients (pts) with disorders of intraventricular conduction. METHODS: We have applied BVP to 28 pts, with left ventricular pacing using minitoracotomy in 3 pts and the transveno...

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Main Author: Galvão Fº,Silas S. (author)
Other Authors: Barcellos,Cecília M. B. (author), Vasconcelos,J. Tarcísio M. (author), Arnez,Jaime G. M. (author), Couceiro,Kátia N. (author), Campos,Leudo (author), Sbaraini,Evandro (author), Lyra,Maurício G. (author), Souza,Fernando S. O. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2002000100004
Country:Brazil
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