Echocardiographic prediction of outcome after cardiac resynchronization therapy: conventional methods and recent developments
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Geert E. Leenders Maarten J. Cramer Margot D. Bogaard Mathias Meine Pieter A. Doevendans Bart W. De Boeck
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
Description
Echocardiography plays an important role in patient assessment before cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and can monitor many of its mechanical effects in heart failure patients. Encouraged by the highly variable individual response observed in the major CRT trials, echocardiography-based measurements of mechanical dyssynchrony have been extensively investigated with the aim of improving response prediction and CRT delivery. Despite recent setbacks, these techniques have continued to develop in order to overcome some of their initial flaws and limitations. This review discusses the concepts and rationale of the available echocardiographic techniques, highlighting newer quantification methods and discussing some of the unsolved issues that need to be addressed.
Heart Fail Rev (2011) 16:235–250 DOI 10.1007/s10741-010-9200-8 Published online: 21 November 2010
