Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and the Emerging Role of Echocardiography (Part 1): Indications and Results from Current Studies

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-75

  Waggoner, Alan D ^a   Agler, Deborah A ^b   Adams, David B ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; QRS COMPLEX;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846028235     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2005.10.021     Document Type: Article

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