Chronic vagal stimulation for the treatment of low ejection fraction heart failure: results of the NEural Cardiac TherApy foR Heart Failure (NECTAR-HF) randomized controlled trial

Zannad, Faı̈ez; Maria De Ferrari, Gaetano; E. Tuinenburg, Anton; J. Wright, David; Brugada, Josép; Butter, Christian; Klein, Helmut; Stolen, Craig; Meyer, Scott; M. Steín, Kenneth; Ramuzat, A.; Schubert, B; Daum, Doug; Neužil, Petr; J. Botman, Cornelis; Castel, M.; D’Onofrio, Antonio; D. Solomon, Scott; Wold, Nicholas; B. Ruble, Stephen

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehu345

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Chronic vagal stimulation for the treatment of low ejection fraction heart failure: results of the NEural Cardiac TherApy foR Heart Failure (NECTAR-HF) randomized controlled trial

Published in European Heart Journal • Aug 31, 2014

Authors:

Faı̈ez Zannad

Gaetano Maria De Ferrari

Anton E. Tuinenburg

Abstract

AIM: The neural cardiac therapy for heart failure (NECTAR-HF) was a randomized sham-controlled trial designed to evaluate whether a single dose of vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) would attenuate cardiac remodelling, improve cardiac function and increase exercise capacity in symptomatic heart failure p...

Subject

Medicine

Heart failure

Ejection fraction

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