Left bundle branch block, an old-new entity

Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 107-116

  Breithardt, Günter ^a   Breithardt, Ole Alexander ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dyssynchrony; Heart failure; Left bundle branch block; Left ventricular dyssynchrony; Mechanisms

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HEART DILATATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HEART WORK; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84866068467     PISSN: 19375387     EISSN: 19375395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12265-011-9344-5     Document Type: Article

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