Assessment of dyssynchrony in patients with severe heart failure by nuclear imaging: Paradise lost and regained or lost and gone forever?

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 96-105

  Mule, Jacopo Dalle ^a   Martinelli, Felice ^b  

^a Civic Hospital   (Italy)

^b SAN MARTINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Heart failure; Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy; Radionuclide angiography

Indexed keywords

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 22044456269     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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