Cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure: biventricular pacing and beyond

WT Abraham - Current Opinion in Cardiology, 2002 - journals.lww.com
… This article reviews the evolution of pacing in heart failure and discusses the underlying
mechanisms that are potentially responsible for the improvement seen in patients receiving …

Biventricular pacing in patients with congestive heart failure: two prospective randomized trials

LA Saxon, JP Boehmer, J Hummel, S Kacet… - The American journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier
… This study employs a randomized crossover design to evaluate the effectiveness of biventricular
pacing for improvement of heart failure status in patients who are also indicated for an …

Comparative effects of permanent biventricular and right-univentricular pacing in heart failure patients with chronic atrial fibrillation

C Leclercq, S Walker, C Linde, J Clementy… - European heart …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… conventional VVIR pacing, effective biventricular pacing seems to improve exercise tolerance
in NYHA class III heart failure patients with chronic atrial fibrillation and wide paced-QRS …

Heart failure decompensation and all-cause mortality in relation to percent biventricular pacing in patients with heart failure: is a goal of 100% biventricular pacing …

BA Koplan, AJ Kaplan, S Weiner, PW Jones… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - jacc.org
… the appropriate biventricular pacing target in patients with heart failure (HF). … rate of
biventricular pacing >85% of pacing time (7). However, the appropriate target for biventricular pacing

Left ventricular and biventricular pacing in congestive heart failure

TC Gerber, RA Nishimura, DR Holmes Jr… - Mayo Clinic …, 2001 - Elsevier
… More recently, LV pacing and biventricular (multisite) pacing … in patients with severe
congestive heart failure (CHF) and … Both LV and biventricular cardiac pacing are thought to …

A pilot experience with permanent biventricular pacing to treat advanced heart failure

C Leclercq, S Cazeau, P Ritter, C Alonso, D Gras… - American heart …, 2000 - Elsevier
… In survivors, biventricular pacing significantly improved … Biventricular pacing appears to
improve the functional status of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy with advanced heart failure. …

Biventricular pacing in end-stage heart failure improves functional capacity and left ventricular function

PF Bakker, HW Meijburg, JW De Vries… - Journal of interventional …, 2000 - Springer
heart failure. In 1993, we introduced biventricular pacing as a novel method to treat heart
failure … left ventricular function in patients with severe heart failure and left bundle branch block. …

Long-term left ventricular pacing: assessment and comparison with biventricular pacing in patients with severe congestive heart failure

A Touiza, Y Etienne, M Gilard, M Fatemi… - Journal of the American …, 2001 - jacc.org
pacing alone has been demonstrated to result in identical improvement compared to biventricular
pacing (… permanent LV pacing alone versus BiV pacing mode has not been evaluated. …

Upgrading from single chamber right ventricular to biventricular pacing in permanently paced patients with worsening heart failure: The RD‐CHF Study

C Leclercq, S Cazeau, D Lellouche… - Pacing and clinical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Biventricular (BiV) stimulation lowers morbidity and mortality in patients with drugrefractory
congestive heart failure (… Long-term benefits of biventricular pacing in congestive heart failure: …

Potential benefit of biventricular pacing in patients with congestive heart failure and ventricular tachyarrhythmia

C Stellbrink, A Auricchio, B Diem, OA Breithardt… - The American journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier
… in biventricular pacing, we analyzed how many patients may benefit from biventricular pacing.
… A total of 28 patients (7.3%) fulfilled eligibility criteria for biventricular pacing if NYHA class …