Four-year efficacy of cardiac resynchronization therapy on exercise tolerance and disease progression: the importance of performing atrioventricular junction ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation.

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Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on July 24, 2006

Authors

Maurizio Gasparini1, Angelo Auricchio, François Regoli, Cecilia Fantoni, Mihoko Kawabata, Paola Galimberti, Daniela Pini, Carlo Ceriotti, Edoardo Gronda, Catherine Klersy, Simona Fratini, Helmut H Klein

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiology, IRCCS, Istituto Clinico Humanitas Rozzano-Milano, Milan, Italy. maurizio.gasparini@humanitas.it

Associated clinical trials:

Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Compared to Rate Control Strategy in Patients With Impaired Left Ventricular Function (AFARC-LVF) | NCT02509754

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