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[...]the high mortality rate of our patients might be due to a disproportionate percentage of New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class IV (40%) patients with respect to previous studies and the absence of functional class II patients in our study; this is because we had decided, at least i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2004-11, Vol.44 (10), p.2096
Hauptverfasser: Achilli, Augusto, Sassara, Massimo, Pontillo, Daniele, Patruno, Nicolino, Achilli, Paola
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Zusammenfassung:[...]the high mortality rate of our patients might be due to a disproportionate percentage of New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class IV (40%) patients with respect to previous studies and the absence of functional class II patients in our study; this is because we had decided, at least in the initial phase of our experience, to reserve CRT for very ill patients.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2004.08.026