Left ventricular internal flow fraction
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Stephanie Clement-Guinaudeau; Jonathan Suever; Antonello DβAndrea; Frits Prinzen
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Article
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2012
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BioMed Central
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English
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Despite the guidelines for patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), one third of the patients do not benefit from the therapy. We show that internal flow fraction (IFF), an MRI-based dyssynchrony measure, was higher in responders to CRT than the non-responders. Therefore, IFF c