Poor agreement of echographic measures of ventricular dyssynchrony

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-240

  Burri, Haran ^a   Müller, Hajo ^a   Vieira, Isabelle ^a   Lerch, René ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Dyssynchrony; Echocardiography; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 43449122213     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2007.03.026     Document Type: Article

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