Easy-to-use comprehensive speckle-tracking approach for cardiac resynchronization therapy

Circulation Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2250-2258

  Mochizuki, Yasuhide ^a   Tanaka, Hidekazu ^a   Tatsumi, Kazuhiro ^a   Matsumoto, Kensuke ^a   Imanishi, Junichi ^a   Yoshida, Akihiro ^a   Hirata, Ken Ichi ^a   Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro ^b   Kawai, Hiroya ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Himeji Cardiovascular Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Resynchronization

Indexed keywords

AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOBAL CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSSYNCHRONY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECKLE TRACKING STRAIN ANALYSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84906810041     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-14-0114     Document Type: Article

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