Cardiac resynchronization therapy with individualized placement of two left ventricular leads at the sites of latest mechanical left ventricular contraction: Guided by 3D-echocardiography and coronary sinus rotation angiography

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 411-414

  Eitel, Charlotte ^a   Döring, Michael ^a   Gaspar, Thomas ^a   Wetzel, Ulrike ^a   Bullens, Roland ^b   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Piorkowski, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Coronary sinus rotation angiography; Multisite pacing; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY SINUS ROTATION ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASYNERGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY VESSELS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 77950276991     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfq013     Document Type: Article

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