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Published at www.nejm.org November 15, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMe0909522)

Deleterious Effects of Right Ventricular Pacing
Bruce D. Lindsay, M.D.

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In this issue of the Journal, Yu et al. report results of the Pacing to Avoid Cardiac Enlargement (PACE) study, a prospective, double-blind, multicenter trial designed to determine whether biventricular pacing is superior to right ventricular apical pacing for the prevention of adverse changes in left ventricular function.1 The inclusion criteria focused on patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction of 45% or more who required pacing because of high-grade atrioventricular block or sinus-node dysfunction. The investigators observed significant differences in the primary end points of left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular end-systolic volume. During a follow-up period that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From the Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing Section, Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland.

This article (10.1056/NEJMe0909522) was published on November 15, 2009, at NEJM.org.




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