Open AccessEchocardiographic Patient Selection for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Author(s) -
Ole A. Breithardt
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.03.004
Subject(s) - cardiac resynchronization therapy , observational study , medicine , heart failure , cardiology , intensive care medicine , ejection fraction
One prospective, observational, multicenter trial has squashed the hopes of heart failure physicians and electrophysiologists that a single echocardiographic dyssynchrony measure would improve the patient response rate for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). In the aftermath of the PROSPECT (
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