Color Doppler tissue velocity imaging demonstrates significant asynchronous regional left ventricular contraction and relaxation in patients with bundle branch block and heart failure compared with control subjects

Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 220-227

  Schuster, Peter ^a   Faerestrand, Svein ^a   Ohm, Ole Jørgen ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Bundle branch block; Heart failure; Tissue Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 5644256862     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081014     Document Type: Article

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