Intra-left ventricular electromechanical asynchrony: A new independent predictor of severe cardiac events in heart failure patients

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 248-256

  Bader, Hugues ^a   Garrigue, Stephane ^a,b   Lafitte, Stephane ^a   Reuter, Sylvain ^a   Jaïs, Pierre ^a   Haïssaguerre, Michel ^a   Bonnet, Jacques ^a   Clementy, Jacques ^a   Roudaut, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASYNERGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX;

EID: 1042299075     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2003.08.038     Document Type: Article

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