Tissue Doppler echocardiography and biventricular pacing in heart failure: Patient selection, procedural guidance, follow-up, quantification of success

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Knebel, Fabian ^a   Reibis, Rona Katharina ^b   Bondke, Hans Jürgen ^a   Witte, Joachim ^a   Walde, Torsten ^a   Eddicks, Stephan ^a   Baumann, Gert ^a   Borges, Adrian Constantin ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Rehabilitation Center of Cardiovascular Diseases   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TISSUE DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 5444219986     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-2-17     Document Type: Review

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