Editorial: Criteria predicting response to CRT: Is more better?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2835-2837

  Santaularia Tomas, Miguel ^a   Abraham, Theodore P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; THERAPY EFFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; NOTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71549171447     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp378     Document Type: Editorial

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