Usefulness of echocardiographic tissue synchronization imaging to predict acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy☆
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Acknowledgements
We thank Andreas Heimdal, PhD, and the GE-Vingmed Corporation for creation of the TSI software; Thaddeus Chodakauskas, BS, RDMS, for technical support; and Leonard I. Ganz, MD, Samir F. Saba, MD, and William Barrington, MD, for their clinical expertise and cooperation.
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Dr. Gorcsan was supported in part by award K24 HL04503-01 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland and the National grant-in-aid 0050587N from the American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas.
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