Association of persistent or worsened echocardiographic dyssynchrony with unfavourable clinical outcomes in heart failure patients with narrow QRS width: A subgroup analysis of the EchoCRT trial

European Heart Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 49-59

  Gorcsan, John ^a   Sogaard, Peter ^b   Bax, Jeroen J ^c   Singh, Jagmeet P ^d   Abraham, William T ^e   Borer, Jeffrey S ^f   Dickstein, Kenneth ^g   Gras, Daniel ^h   Krum, Henry ⁱ   Brugada, Josep ^j   Robertson, Michele ^k   Ford, Ian ^k   Holzmeister, Johannes ^l   Ruschitzka, Frank ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^h Nouvelles Cliniques Nantaises   (France)

ⁱ MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Echocardiography; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECG ABNORMALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DYSSYNCHRONY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COLOR DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84959902008     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv418     Document Type: Article

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