Review

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine (2007) 4, 90-101
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0794  
Received 14 July 2006 | Accepted 26 October 2006

Cardiac resynchronization therapy or atrio-biventricular pacing—what should it be called?

John GF Cleland*, Mansour Nasir and Ahmed Tageldien

Correspondence *Department of Cardiology, Castle Hill Hospital, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull HU16 5TX, UK

Email
 j.g.cleland@hull.ac.uk

Conceptually and in practice cardiac dyssynchrony is complex. In this Review, Cleland et al. discuss the results of atrio-biventricular pacing trials, and examine how this pacing can improve cardiac synchrony in many patients and whether cardiac resynchronization is indeed the mechanism by which atrio-biventricular pacing exerts its effects.

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