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Circumferential myocardial strain in cardiomyopathy with and without left bundle branch block

BACKGROUND: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been shown to decrease mortality in 60-70% of advanced heart failure patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB) and QRS duration > 120 ms. There have been intense efforts to find reproducible non-invasive parameters to predict CRT respons...

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Autores principales: Han, Yuchi, Chan, Jonathan, Haber, Idith, Peters, Dana C, Zimetbaum, Peter J, Manning, Warren J, Yeon, Susan B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20047696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-12-2