Is echocardiographic assessment of dyssynchrony useful to select candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy? Echocardiography is useful before cardiac resynchronization therapy if QRS duration is available

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2008 Jul;1(1):79-84; discussion 84. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.792804.

Authors

Jacob Abraham¹, Theodore P Abraham

Affiliation

¹ Translational Cardiovascular Ultrasound Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

PMID: 19808517
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.792804

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Action Potentials
Animals
Cardiac Pacing, Artificial*
Electrocardiography*
Evidence-Based Medicine
Heart Conduction System / physiology*
Heart Failure / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Failure / physiopathology
Heart Failure / therapy
Humans
Kinetics
Patient Selection*
Predictive Value of Tests
Ultrasonography
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / therapy