Publications by authors named "Linda Mortier"
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- The study focused on how baseline cardiac asynchrony can affect clinical outcomes in heart failure patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), particularly regarding their recovery and hospitalization rates.* -
- Researchers analyzed 48 heart failure patients with biventricular pacemakers and found that those with greater asynchrony (measured by pulsed-wave tissue Doppler imaging) prior to CRT had better recovery outcomes.* -
- The results indicated that a Sum asynchrony greater than 98 ms effectively identified patients likely to benefit from CRT, linking favorable clinical outcomes to significant left ventricular functional recovery over two years.*
Background: Impaired vasodilator myocardial blood flow response has been observed in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP). However, the mechanisms responsible for this blunted response are not clear. In the present study, we investigated whether the blunted vasodilator flow response is related to indices of left ventricular performance in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.
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