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Beyond the measurement of QRS complex toward mechanical dyssynchrony: cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failure patients with a normal QRS duration
  1. A Auricchio1,
  2. C M Yu2
  1. 1Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Germany
  2. 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr Angelo Auricchio
    Division of Cardiology, University Hospital, Leipziger Strasse 44, D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany; angelo.auricchiomedizin.uni-magdeburg.de

Abstract

Mechanical systolic dyssynchrony exists in many patients with heart failure, irrespective of QRS duration, and so more patients may derive benefit from cardiac resynchronisation therapy than previously considered

  • cardiac resynchronisation therapy
  • heart failure
  • QRS duration
  • CRT, cardiac resynchronisation therapy
  • LBBB, left bundle branch block
  • TDI, tissue Doppler imaging

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2003.024273

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