Fusion beat in patients with heart failure treated with left ventricular pacing: May ECG morphology relate to mechanical synchrony? A pilot study

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gianfranchi, Lorella ^a   Bettiol, Katia ^a   Sassone, Biagio ^b   Verlato, Roberto ^c   Corbucci, Giorgio ^d   Alboni, Paolo ^a  

^a Ospedale di Cento Fe   (Italy)

^b Ospedale di Bentivoglio   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Camposampiero   (Italy)

^d Vitatron Medical Italia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART PACING; HEART STROKE VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39049165727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-6-1     Document Type: Article

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