Echocardiography plays an evolving and important role in the care of heart failure patients
treated with biventricular pacing, or cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Numerous …

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an accepted treatment for patients with heart
failure (HF), impaired left ventricular (LV) function, and a wide QRS complex. It has been …

Background—Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves mortality and morbidity in
patients with heart failure (HF) with wide QRS complex and diminished left ventricular (LV) …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether left ventricular (LV) midwall
fibrosis, detected by midwall hyperenhancement (MWHE) on late gadolinium enhancement …

Background—We hypothesized that combined assessment of factors that are associated
with favorable reverse remodeling after cardiac resynchronization-defibrillator therapy (CRT …

Abstract Aims The Speckle Tracking and Resynchronization (STAR) study used a
prospective multi-centre design to test the hypothesis that speckle-tracking …

Background Myocardial scarring at the LV pacing site leads to incomplete resynchronization
and a suboptimal symptomatic response to CRT. We sought to determine whether the use of …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that a combined
echocardiographic assessment of longitudinal dyssynchrony by tissue Doppler imaging …

Aims Ischaemic heart disease negatively impacts response to cardiac resynchronization
therapy (CRT), yet the impact of infarct scar burden on clinical outcomes and its interaction …

A U-shaped contraction pattern was shown to be associated with a better Cardiac
resynchronization therapy (CRT) response. The main goal of this study is to automatically …