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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2016-05-01
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Series: | Echo Research and Practice |
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Online Access: | http://www.echorespract.com/content/3/1/R1.full |