Heart Rhythm
Volume 3, Issue 3 , Pages 296-310 , March 2006

Electrocardiographic imaging of cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure: Observation of variable electrophysiologic responses

  • Ping Jia, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Charulatha Ramanathan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Raja N. Ghanem, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Kyungmoo Ryu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Niraj Varma, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
    • University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Yoram Rudy, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Yoram Rudy, Cardiac Bioelectricity & Arrhythmia Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1097, 290 Whitaker Hall, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899

Received 2 August 2005 ,Accepted 22 November 2005.

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 The study was supported by Merit Award R37-HL-33343 and Grant R01-HL-49054 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to Dr. Rudy. Dr. Rudy is the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Drs. Jia and Ramanathan are employees and stockholders of Cardioinsight, Inc., a company that plans to commercialize electrocardiographic imaging as a clinical tool. Dr. Rudy is a coinventor of the ECGI technology.

PII: S1547-5271(05)02359-3

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.11.025

Heart Rhythm
Volume 3, Issue 3 , Pages 296-310 , March 2006

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