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Permanent Left Atrial Pacing Therapy May Improve Symptoms in Heart Failure Patients with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Atrial Dyssynchrony: A Pilot Study Prior to a National Clinical Research Programme

Gabriel Laurent, J.C. Eicher, Anaëlle Mathé, Géraldine Bertaux, Olivier Barthez, Régine Debin, Clotilde Billard, Jean Luc Philip, Jean Eric Wolf

European Journal of Heart Failure · 2012 · 48 citations · 20 references

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Abstract

The beneficial effects of LA pacing observed in this pilot study will have to be confirmed by the randomized, controlled crossover 'LEAD' study.

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

Serge Cazeau, Christophe Leclercq, Thomas Lavergne et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2001 · 2.8K citations · Full text

How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology

Walter J. Paulus, Carsten Tschöpe, John E. Sanderson et al. · European Heart Journal · 2007 · 2.7K citations · Full text

ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities

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Mark D. Carlson, John C. Messenger, Scott L. Beau et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2003 · 238 citations

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