Tissue Doppler evaluation of intraventricular asynchrony in isolated left bundle branch block

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 120-126

  Melek, Mehmet ^a,c   Esen, Ozlem ^b   Esen, Ali Metin ^a   Barutcu, Irfan ^a   Onrat, Ersel ^a   Kaya, Dayimi ^a  

^a AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Intraventricular asynchrony; Isolated left bundle branch block; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33645063993     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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