Impact of Left Ventricular Size on Tissue Doppler and Longitudinal Strain by Speckle Tracking for Assessing Wall Motion and Mechanical Dyssynchrony in Candidates for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 695-701

  Lim, Pascal ^a   Mitchell Heggs, Laurens ^a   Buakhamsri, Adisai ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Grimm, Richard A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Speckle tracking; Tissue Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QRS COMPLEX;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 66549093151     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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