Right bundle branch block and impaired left ventricular function as evidence of a left ventricular conduction delay

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 120-126

  Takamatsu, Hiroto ^a   Tada, Hiroshi ^a,c   Okaniwa, Hiroki ^a   Toide, Hiroyuki ^a   Maruyama, Hiroko ^a   Higuchi, Rumi ^a   Kaseno, Kenichi ^a   Naito, Shigeto ^a   Kurabayashi, Masahiko ^b   Oshima, Shigeru ^a   Taniguchi, Koichi ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Cardiovascular Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Right bundle branch block; Tissue Doppler imaging; Tissue tracking imaging; Ventricular dyssynchrony

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASYNERGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QRS COMPLEX; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART PACING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 39849092022     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.120     Document Type: Article

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