Clinical utility of speckle-tracking echocardiography in cardiac resynchronisation therapy

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) can profoundly improve outcome in selected patients with heart failure; however, response is difficult to predict and can be absent in up to one in three patients. There has been a substantial amount of interest in the echocardiographic assessment of left vent...

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Main Authors: Sitara G Khan, Dimitris Klettas, Stam Kapetanakis, Mark J Monaghan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-05-01
Series:Echo Research and Practice
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Online Access:http://www.echorespract.com/content/3/1/R1.full