Echocardiographic assessment of ventricular dyssynchrony

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-37

  Gorcsan III, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERVENTRICULAR MECHANICAL DELAY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; RR INTERVAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 47149086805     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-008-0006-0     Document Type: Review

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