Electrocardiographically concealed variation in left ventricular capture: A case with implications for resynchronization therapy in ischemic cardiomyopathy

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 739-742

  Grimley, Sara R ^a   Suffoletto, Matthew S ^a   Gorcsan III, John ^a   Schwartzman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization; Left ventricle; Myocardial infarction; Pacing

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33646789500     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.02.013     Document Type: Article

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