Biventricular pacing is an excellent option for certain patients with advanced HF. Also known as “cardiac resynchronization therapy,” biventricular pacing has been shown to improve HF symptoms ...

Biventricular pacing therapy is effective in patients with severe congestive heart failure. Strain Doppler imaging (SDI) is a new tool for measuring regional myocardial deformation. We evaluated ...

After 6 months of biventricular pacing, 71% of the patients were considered as clinical responders. The origin of the cardiomyopathy, the preimplantation QRS width, and the narrowing in QRS ...

When atrial fibrillation is present with systolic heart failure, AV node ablation may be required for a biventricular pacemaker to work efficiencly. The QRS complex occurs at random intervals ...