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Benefits of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in an Asynchronous Heart Failure Model Induced by Left Bundle Branch Ablation and Rapid Pacing

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His Bundle Pacing for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Physiological Elegance Meets Clinical Reality

¹Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Valencia, Spain; Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en RED en Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Madrid, Spain.

JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology

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capture threshold conduction system pacing heart failure lead revision left bundle branch block

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