Electrical and mechanical components of dyssynchrony in heart failure patients with normal QRS duration and left bundle-branch block: Impact of left and biventricular pacing

Circulation

Volumn 109, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 2544-2549

  Turner, Mark S ^a   Bleasdale, Rob A ^a   Vinereanu, Dragos ^a   Mumford, Catherine E ^a   Paul, Vince ^b   Fraser, Alan G ^a   Frenneaux, Michael P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ST PETER S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bundle branch block; Contractility; Heart failure; Pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLE;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 2642539260     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000131184.40893.40     Document Type: Article

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