Interventricular mechanical dyssynchrony: A novel marker of cardiac events in Brugada syndrome

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-82

  Babaee Bigi, Mohamad Ali ^a   Moaref, Ali Reza ^a   Aslani, Amir ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Risk stratification; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART PREEJECTION PERIOD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE;

EID: 37549050223     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.09.013     Document Type: Article

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