The points for pacing*
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, FACC ,*
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Figure 1 Estimated impact of successful biventricular (Bi-V) pacing in patients typical of those in the major trials. Good quality of life is calculated as 105 minus the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire score (therefore, a higher score is better on this graph), shown in open bars. Solid bars are peak oxygen consumption (VO2) during exercise testing. For comparison, average values at baseline are superimposed from the population with mild-to-moderate heart failure in the Vasodilator Heart Failure Trials (V-HeFT) (3).
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