Left ventricular activation imaging by 3-Dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography - Comparison with electrical activation mapping-

Circulation Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2481-2489

  Seo, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamasaki, Hiro ^a   Kawamura, Ryo ^a   Ishizu, Tomoko ^a   Igarashi, Miyako ^a   Sekiguchi, Yukio ^a   Tada, Hiroshi ^b   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 Dimensional echocardiography; Activation imaging; Dyssynchrony; Speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY SINUS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION MAPPING; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENTRICULAR ACTIVATION TIME; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SARCOIDOSIS; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84884605554     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-13-0380     Document Type: Article

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