Assessment of left ventricular electromechanical activation during right ventricular apical and outflow tract pacing

Background: Right ventricular (RV) apical pacing, induces asynchronous ventricular contraction and impairs cardiac function. Alternative sites of pacing particularly right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) may have a more favorable hemodynamic profile, physiological left ventricular (LV) activation a...

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Main Authors: Hisham Samir Roshdy, Magdy Mohammed Abdelsamie, Elsayed Mohammed Farag
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-12-01
Series:The Egyptian Heart Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110260816300035