title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. peter.schuster@med.uib.no
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schuster
authors.forename: Svein
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Faerestrand
authors.forename: Ole-Jørgen
authors.initials: OJ
authors.lastname: Ohm
mesh_terms: 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*