Copyright © 2004 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Letter to the Editor
Tissue Doppler and cardiac resynchronisation therapy: a new challenge for the optimal choice of candidates
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Hospital, Via S. Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy Tel.: +39-81-7462145; fax: +39-81-5466152
Department of Cardiology, University of Siena, Italy
E-mail address: mgalderi@unina.it
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Dear Editor,
With interest, we read the article of Ghio et al.1 and the Editorial of Breithardt et al.2 in which the usefulness of Tissue Doppler (TD) to detect left ventricular (LV) dyssynergy was reported. Ghio et al.1 defined the intraventricular asynchrony as a difference greater than