Biventricular pacing in heart failure.
Optimal pharmacological therapy for heart failure improves patients' prognosis and symptoms. Despite this, the long-term prognosis for these patients is very poor and symptoms are debilitating. Biventricular pacing, or resynchronization therapy, should be considered for patients who remain symptomatic despite optimal therapy and have evidence of dyssynchrony.
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St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 0PZ.
Fluck
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Paul
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D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection