Color Doppler tissue velocity imaging demonstrates significant asynchronous regional left ventricular contraction and relaxation in patients with bundle branch block and heart failure compared with control subjects.
Schuster
Peter
P
Institute of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. peter.schuster@med.uib.no
Faerestrand
Svein
S
Ohm
Ole-Jørgen
OJ
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*