Characteristics and long-term outcome of echocardiographic super-responders to cardiac resynchronisation therapy: 'Real world' experience from a single tertiary care centre

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 1668-1674

  Steffel, Jan ^a   Milosevic, Gligor ^a   Hürlimann, Anja ^a   Krasniqi, Nazmi ^a   Namdar, Mehdi ^a   Ruschitzka, Frank ^a   Lüscher, Thomas F ^a   Duru, Firat ^a   Holzmeister, Johannes ^a   Hürlimann, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART DEATH; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 80053202827     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300222     Document Type: Article

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