Do we overestimate left ventricular ejection fraction by two-dimensional echocardiography in patients with left bundle branch block?
Ali Kemal CabukGizem CabukAhmet SayinMurat KaramanliogluBarış KilicaslanCenk EkmekciHatice SolmazOmer F AslanturkOner OzdoganPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)
In patients with LBBB and high SDI (≥6%), LVEF values were overestimated and systolic volumes were underestimated by 2D echocardiography compared to 3D echocardiography.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- aortic stenosis
- ejection fraction
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- heart failure
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- acute myocardial infarction
- left atrial
- mitral valve
- computed tomography
- pulmonary hypertension
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- atrial fibrillation
- coronary artery disease
- aortic valve