Mechanism of cardiac resynchronization therapy by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in patients with heart failure

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Campos Vieira, Marcelo Luiz ^a,b   Maddukuri, Prasad V ^a   Phang, Robert S ^a   Pandian, Natesa G ^a   Mathias Jr , Wilson ^a   Ramires, José A F ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE;

EID: 31144436595     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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