Magnetic resonance imaging is superior to cardiac scintigraphy to identify nonresponders to cardiac resynchronization therapy

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Yokokawa, Miki ^a   Tada, Hiroshi ^a,b   Toyama, Takuji ^a   Koyama, Keiko ^a   Naito, Shigeto ^a   Oshima, Shigeru ^a   Taniguchi, Koichi ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Myocardial scar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT FAILURE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 60849118653     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.02227.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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