Dyssynchrony and the risk of ventricular arrhythmias

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 432-444

  Kutyifa, Valentina ^a,b   Pouleur, Anne Catherine ^c   Knappe, Dorit ^c   Al Ahmad, Amin ^d   Gibinski, Michal ^e   Wang, Paul J ^d   McNitt, Scott ^a   Merkely, Bela ^b   Goldenberg, Ilan ^a   Solomon, Scott D ^c   Moss, Arthur J ^a   Zareba, Wojciech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Samodzielny Publiczny Szpital Kliniczny   (Poland)

Author keywords

cardiac resynchronization therapy; heart failure; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; ventricular arrhythmia; ventricular dyssynchrony

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSSYNCHRONY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CANADA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84876100806     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.12.008     Document Type: Article

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