Clinical factors and echocardiographic techniques related to the presence, size, and location of acoustic windows for leadless cardiac pacing

Europace

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1760-1765

  Defaria Yeh, Doreen ^a   Lease Lonergan, Katy ^b   Fu, David ^b   Yeh, Robert W ^a   Echt, Debra S ^c   Foster, Elyse ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EBR Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic window; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Leadless pacing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PACING; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBS; STROKE VOLUME; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 81855206196     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eur199     Document Type: Article

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