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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 18, 2009
European Heart Journal 2009 30(8):885-886; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp106
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Rocking will tell it

Jens-Uwe Voigt

Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Corresponding author. Tel: +32 16 349 016, Fax: +32 16 344 240, Email: jens.uwe.voigt@gmx.net

This editorial refers to ‘Toward understanding response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: left ventricular dyssynchrony is only one of multiple mechanisms’{dagger}, by C. Parsai et al., on page 940 and

‘Low-dose dobutamine stress echo to quantify the degree of remodelling after cardiac resynchronization therapy’{ddagger}, by C. Parsai et al., on page 950

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During the past years, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has become a recognized treatment option for patients with heart failure and conduction delays. In the meantime, the principle of re-synchronizing a dyssynchronous ventricle can be regarded as established.1 The challenge of correctly identifying the patient candidates who will benefit from this costly and not completely non-invasive therapy, however, remains.

With its wide availability, feasibility, and its potential to analyse regional myocardial function with excellent temporal and good spatial resolution, echocardiography may be regarded as the ideal imaging modality for CRT patient selection. Many attempts have been made in the past years to utilize tissue Doppler for this task. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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