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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 |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 0735-1097 1558-3597 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.08.026 |