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Cardiac dyssynchrony

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Three-dimensional Echocardiography

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Cardiac dyssynchrony refers to an uncoordinated pattern of electrical activation, mechanical contraction, and relaxation of the heart. The substrate for dyssynchrony lies in dysfunction of the specialized electrical conduction tissue of the heart, or impaired conduction of electrical signals through working myocardium, or in delayed mechanical contraction or relaxation of the myocardium. Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) has enabled the whole of the left ventricle to be imaged simultaneously and allowed the development of a method to quantify intraventricular mechanical dyssynchrony

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  1. King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK

    Mark J. Monaghan PhD, FRCP (Hon), FACC, FESC (Professor of Echocardiography Director of Noninvasive Cardiology and Associate Medical Director)

  2. Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, Kent, UK

    Shaumik Adhya BSc MBBS MRCP CCDS (Consultant Cardiologist)

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Monaghan, M., Adhya, S. (2015). Cardiac dyssynchrony. In: Buck, T., Franke, A., Monaghan, M. (eds) Three-dimensional Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36799-1_5

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