Severe Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony Is Associated With Poor Prognosis in Patients With Moderate Systolic Heart Failure Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1315-1323

  Penicka, Martin ^a   Bartunek, Jozef ^b   Lang, Otto ^a   Medilek, Karel ^a   Tousek, Petr ^a   Vanderheyden, Marc ^b   De Bruyne, Bernard ^b   Maruskova, Michaela ^a   Widimsky, Petr ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34648837688     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.03.070     Document Type: Article

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