Baseline delayed left ventricular activation predicts long-term clinical outcome in cardiac resynchronization therapy recipients

Europace

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 358-364

  Eitel, Charlotte ^a,b   Wilton, Stephen B ^a   Switzer, Noah ^a   Cowan, Karen ^a   Exner, Derek V ^a  

^a LIBIN CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Electrocardiography; Left ventricular activation time; Outcome; Response; Ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART GRAFT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ACTIVATION TIME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84857864399     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eur298     Document Type: Article

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