A comparison of acoustic cardiography and echocardiography for optimizing pacemaker settings in Cardiac resynchronization therapy

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 802-811

  Zuber, Michel ^a   Toggweiler, Stefan ^a   Lori Quinn Tate, ^b   Brown, Lei ^b   Amkieh, Ali ^b   Erne, Paul ^a,c  

^a Division of Cardiology   (Switzerland)

^b Louisiana Heart Hospital   (United States)

^c Head of Division of Cardiology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acoustic cardiography; Biventricular pacing; CRT; Doppler; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; MALE; PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART PACING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55249107228     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01094.x     Document Type: Article

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