Development of Strategies for Guiding Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-345

  Rademakers, Leonard M ^a   de Boeck, Bart W L ^b   Maessen, Jos G ^a   Prinzen, Frits W ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MOVEMENT; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS;

EID: 45849088064     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2008.02.008     Document Type: Review

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