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Cardiac resynchronization therapy: does varying the pacing site or combination of sites improve cardiac function?

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boxed-textHay I et al. (2004) Short-term effects of right-left heart sequential cardiac resynchronization in patients with heart failure, chronic atrial fibrillation, and atrioventricular nodal block. Circulation 110: 3404–3410

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