title: Optimal use of echocardiography in cardiac resynchronisation therapy.
abstract: Echocardiography has several roles in patients with cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT). First, it can optimise selection of CRT candidates by demonstration of left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony. Second, it can be used to assess immediate response to CRT, including detection of acute LV resynchronisation. Echocardiography is also useful to evaluate long-term benefit from CRT. Finally, echocardiography is important in optimisation of pacemaker settings, including AV and VV optimisation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands. g.b.bleeker@lumc.nl
authors.forename: Gabe B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Bleeker
authors.forename: Cheuk-Man
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Petros
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nihoyannopoulos
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: de Sutter
authors.forename: Nico
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Van de Veire
authors.forename: Eduard R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Holman
authors.forename: Martin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Schalij
authors.forename: Ernst E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: van der Wall
authors.forename: Jeroen J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bax
mesh_terms: D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D011379:Prognosis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging