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Heart 2004;90:483-484; doi:10.1136/hrt.2003.026393
Copyright © 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Cardiovascular Society
Heart 2004;90:483-484
© 2004 by BMJ Publishing Group & British Cardiac Society

EDITORIAL

Non-contact left ventricular endocardial mapping for cardiac resynchronisation therapy: a "slow conduction" towards the fast solution

P Della Bella, C Carbucicchio

Department of Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology, Centro Cardiologico - Fondazione Monzino, IRCCS, Institute of Cardiology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr Paolo Della Bella
Department of Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology, Centro Cardiologico - Fondazione Monzino, IRCCS, Institute of Cardiology, University of Milan, 20138 Milan, Italy; paolo.dellabella{at}ccfm.it

ABSTRACT

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy can help to improve left ventricular function in patients with heart failure, but only if those regions of myocardium which are mostly compromised by electromechanical desynchronisation can be identified and effectively stimulated

Keywords: cardiac resynchronisation therapy; heart failure; non-contact mapping

Abbreviations: CHF, congestive heart failure; CRT, cardiac resynchronisation therapy; LBBB, left bundle branch block


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