Hype and hope in the use of echocardiography for selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy the tower of babel revisited

Circulation

Volumn 117, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2573-2576

  Marwick, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART PACING; HUMAN; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; STANDARD;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 47649127459     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.772475     Document Type: Editorial

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