| Literature DB >> 20083079 |
Matteo Bertini1, Partho P Sengupta, Gaetano Nucifora, Victoria Delgado, Arnold C T Ng, Nina Ajmone Marsan, Miriam Shanks, Rutger R J van Bommel, Martin J Schalij, Jagat Narula, Jeroen J Bax.
Abstract
The authors discuss an incremental value of assessing left ventricular (LV) twist mechanics in patients with heart failure (HF) and its potential usefulness in characterizing response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and reversal of LV remodeling at 6 months follow-up. They also underscore a critical relationship between LV lead position and changes in LV twist after CRT, and suggest that the reversal of LV remodeling in HF patients following CRT primarily results from restoration of the global sequence of LV twist mechanics.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 20083079 DOI： 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.09.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging ISSN： 1876-7591