Prevalence of mechanical dyssynchrony in heart failure patients with different QRS durations

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 616-622

  Haghjoo, Majid ^a   Bagherzadeh, Ataallah ^a   Fazelifar, Amir Farjam ^a   Haghighi, Zahra Ojaghi ^a   Esmaielzadeh, Maryam ^a   Alizadeh, Abolfath ^a   Emkanjoo, Zahra ^a   Sadeghpour, Anita ^a   Samiei, Niloofar ^a   Farahani, Maryam Moshkani ^a   Sadr Ameli, Mohammad Ali ^a   Maleki, Majid ^a   Noohi, Fereidoun ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Electrocardiography; Interventricular delay; Intraventricular delay; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QRS COMPLEX; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247475697     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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