Mechanical dyssynchrony in advanced decompensated heart failure: Relation to hemodynamic responses to intensive medical therapy

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1105-1110

  Mullens, Wilfried ^a   Borowski, Allen G ^a   Curtin, Ronan ^a   Grimm, Richard A ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Tang, W H Wilson ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac index; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Decompensated heart failure; Hemodynamics; Mechanical dyssynchrony

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOBUTAMINE; HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; MILRINONE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 50949102384     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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