Echocardiographic aspects of multisite pacing in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1056-1064

  Winter, Siegmund ^a   Nesser, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a Elisabethinen Teaching Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Echocardiography; Multisite pacing

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE THERAPY; DIZZINESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS NODE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 53349152436     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00786.x     Document Type: Article

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