Ventricular coupling of electrical and mechanical dyssynchronization in heart failure patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 178-182

  Toussaint, Jean FranÇOis ^a,b   Lavergne, Thomas ^a   Kerrou, Khaldoun ^a   De Dieuleveult, Barbara ^b   Ponce, Felizardo ^a   Froissart, Marc ^a,b   Le Heuzey, Jean Yves ^a   Guize, Louis ^a   Paillard, Michel ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Phase analysis; Radionuclide angiography; Ventricular synchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QRS COMPLEX; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0036185930     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00178.x     Document Type: Article

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