It's Time for a Paradigm Shift in the Quantitative Evaluation of Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 672-676

  Fornwalt, Brandon K ^a   Delfino, Jana G ^a   Sprague, William W ^a   Oshinski, John N ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DYSSYNCHRONY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; QRS COMPLEX;

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

EID: 66749132906     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.04.012     Document Type: Editorial

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