Impact of viability and scar tissue on response to cardiac resynchronization therapy in ischaemic heart failure patients

European Heart Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-41

  Ypenburg, Claudia ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a   Bleeker, Gabe B ^a   Steendijk, Paul ^a   Boersma, Eric ^b   Dibbets Schneider, Petra ^a   Stokkel, Marcel P M ^a   Van Der Wall, Ernst E ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Heart failure; Nuclear imaging; Viability

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CICATRIX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846364331     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl379     Document Type: Article

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