Left ventricular diastolic filling prior to cardiac resynchronization therapy: Implications for atrioventricular delay programming

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 838-844

  Waggoner, Alan D ^a   Lisa De Las Fuentes, ^a   Faddis, Mitchell N ^a   Gleva, Marye J ^a   Spence, Karen E ^a   Davila Roman, Victor G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular delay; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Diastolic function; Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HUMAN; MALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 53349161434     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01097.x     Document Type: Article

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