Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Assessment of Dyssynchrony and Myocardial Scar Predicts Function Class Improvement Following Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 561-568

  Bilchick, Kenneth C ^a   Dimaano, Veronica ^a   Wu, Katherine C ^a   Helm, Robert H ^a   Weiss, Robert G ^a   Lima, Joao A ^a   Berger, Ronald D ^a   Tomaselli, Gordon F ^a   Bluemke, David A ^a   Halperin, Henry R ^a   Abraham, Theodore ^a   Kass, David A ^a   Lardo, Albert C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

biventricular; cardiac magnetic resonance; cardiac resynchronization therapy; dyssynchrony; heart failure

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; SCAR FORMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; CICATRIX; COHORT STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 51549083817     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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