%0 Journal Article
%T The Role of Echocardiography in the Optimization of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Current Evidence and Future Perspectives
%A Antonios Athanasiou
%A Christos Damaskos
%A Efthimios Livanis
%A Eleftherios Spartalis
%A Eleni Tzatzaki
%A Michael Spartalis
%A Vassilis Voudris
%J Archive of "The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal".
%D 2017
%R 10.2174/1874192401711010133
%X Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has become a mainstay in the management of heart failure. Up to one-third of patients who received resynchronization devices do not experience the full benefits of CRT. The clinical factors influencing the likelihood to respond to the therapy are wide QRS complex, left bundle branch block, female gender, non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (highest responders), male gender, ischaemic cardiomyopathy (moderate responders) and narrow QRS complex, non-left bundle branch block (lowest, non-responders)
%K Echocardiography
%K Resynchronization
%K CRT
%K Dyssynchrony
%K Optimization
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5748829/