3-Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony. An Alternative Viewpoint

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1334-1335

  Monaghan, Mark ^a   Bax, Jeroen ^a   Franke, Andreas ^a   Kamp, Otto ^a   Kuehl, Harald ^a   Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^a   TenCate, Folkert ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSSYNCHRONY; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC DYSSYNCHRONY INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 70350776814     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.09.001     Document Type: Letter

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