Left bundle branch block in chronic heart failure - Impact on diastolic function, filling pressures, and B-type natriuretic peptide levels

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-101

  Bruch, Christian ^a   Stypmann, Joerg ^a   Grude, Matthias ^a   Gradaus, Rainer ^a   Breithardt, Günter ^a   Wichter, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DIURETIC AGENT; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; QRS COMPLEX; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; STATISTICS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 30844472648     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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