QRS Width and Mechanical Dyssynchrony for Selection of Patients for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. One Can't Do Without the Other

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-143

  Abraham, Theodore P ^a   Olsen, Niels Thue ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dyssynchrony; echocardiography; EKG

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSSYNCHRONY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 75949089631     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.12.005     Document Type: Editorial

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