Optimal use of echocardiography in cardiac resynchronisation therapy

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1339-1350

  Bleeker, Gabe B ^a   Yu, Cheuk Man ^b   Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^c   De Sutter, Johan ^d   Van De Veire, Nico ^d   Holman, Eduard R ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a   Van Der Wall, Ernst E ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; SINUS NODE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PACING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 38449084285     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.076422     Document Type: Review

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