Acute left ventricular dyssynchrony improvement predicts long-term benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Capasso, Fabio ^a   Giunta, Anna ^b   De Simone, Antonio ^a   Turco, Pietro ^a   La Rocca, Vincenzo ^a   Grimaldi, M Gabriella ^a   Iuliano, Assunta ^a   Stabile, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Laboratorio di Elettrofisiologia   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Civile di Marcianise (CE)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Heart failure; Interventricular dyssynchrony; Intraventricular dyssynchrony; Left ventricular dyssynchrony

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASYNERGY; HUMAN; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846275336     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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