Myocardial asynchrony in patients with postinfarction intraventricular conduction defects

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1029-1034

  Janion, Marianna ^a,c   Ciuraszkiewicz, Katarzyna ^a   Sielski, Janusz ^a   Grabowska, Urszula ^a   Gawor, Zenon ^b  

^a Swietokrzyskie Centrum Kardiologii Poland   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Intraventricular conduction defects; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial performance index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT POSTERIOR BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 36248967117     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00532.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Yu CM, Fung JW, Chan CK, et al : Comparison of efficacy of reverse remodelling and clinical improvement for relatively narrow and wide QRS complexes after cardiac resynchronisation therapy for heart failure. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2004 : 15 1058 1065.
2. Bader H, Garrigue S, Lafitte S, et al : Intra-left ventricular electromechanical asynchrony. A new independent predictor of severe cardiac events in heart failure patients. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43 : 248 256.
3. Rahman MYA, Hui W, Yigitbasi M, et al : Detection of left vetricular asynchrony in patients with right bundle-branch block after repair of tetralogy of Fallot using tissue-Doppler imaging- derived strain. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45 : 915 921.
4. Ritter P, Padeletti L, Gillio-Meina L, et al : Determination of the optimal atriovetricular delay in the DDD pacing. Europace 1999 1 : 126 130.
5. Cazeau S, Bordachar P, Jauvert G, et al : Echocardiographic modeling of cardiac dyssynchrony before and during multisite stimulation: A prospective study. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2003 26 : 137 143.
6. Pitzalis MV, Iacoviello M, Romito R, et al : Cardiac reschronization therapy tailored by echocardiographic evaluation of ventricular asynchrony. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40 : 1615 1622.
7. Lax JA, Bermann AM, Cianciulli TF, et al : Estimation of the EF in patients with myocardial infarction obtained from the combined index systolic and diastolic left vantricular function: A new method. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2000 13 : 116 123.
8. Miller JM, Zipes DP. Diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias. In Braunwald E (ed Braunwald's Heart Disease. Philadelphia, Elsevier Saunders, 2005, pp. 697 712.
9. Grines CL, Bashore TM, Boudoulas H, et al : Functional abnormalities in isolated left bundle-branch block. Circulation 1991 79 : 845 853.
10. Melek M, Esen O, Esen AM, et al : Tissue Doppler evaluation of intraventricular asynchrony in isolated left bundle branch block. Echocardiography 2006 23 : 120 126.
11. Lev M, Bharati S. Anatomic basis for impulse generation and atrio-ventricular transmission. Philadelphia, FA Davis, 1976.
12. Little WC, Reeves RC, Arciniegas J, et al : Mechanism of abnormal interventricular septal motion during delayed left vetricular activation. Circulation 1982 65 : 1486 1491.
13. Quintana M, Saha S, Rohani M, et al : Electromechanical coupling, uncoupling and vetricular function in patients with bundle-branch block: A tissue-Doppler echocardiographic study. Echocardiography 2004 21 : 687 698.
14. Hunt D, Lie JT, Vohru J, et al : Histopathology of heart block coplicating acute myocardial infarction. Correlation with the His bundle electrogram. Circulation 1973 48 : 1251 1261.
15. Prinzen WF, Augustijn CH, Arts T, et al : Redsitribution of myocardial fiber strain and blood by asynchronous activation. Am J Physiol 1990 259 : H300- H308.
16. Tei C, Link LH, Hodge DO, et al : New index of combined systolic and diastolic myocardial performance: A simple and reproducible measure of cardiac function - A study in normals and dilated cardiomyopathy. J Cardiol 1995 26 : 357 366.
17. Dabizzi-Dabizzi RP, Aiazzi L, Barletta GA, et al : Right bundle-branch block in coronary aretry disease: A hemodynamic and angiographic study. Clin Cardiol 1988 11 : 412 418.
18. Go AS, Barron HV, Rundle AC, et al : Bundle branch block and in-hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction. National Registry of Myocardial Infarction 2 Investigators. Ann Intern Med 1999 34 : 618 620.
19. Demoulin JC, Kulbertus HE. Histopathologic correlates of left posterior fascicular block. Am J Cardiol 1979 44 : 1083 1088.
20. Das MK, Cheriparambil K, Bedi A, et al : Prolonged QRS duration (QRS ≥ 170 ms) and left axis deviation in the presence of left bundle-branch block: A marker of poor left ventricular systolic function? Am Heart J 2001 142 : 756 759.